Ingenuity Quotes

“Like I always say, can't find a door, make your own.”

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

“If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.”

“We haven't the money, so we've got to think.”

“There is no physical or economic reason why human resourcefulness and enterprise cannot forever continue to respond to impending shortages and existing problems with new expedients that, after an adjustment period, leave us better off than before.”

“The supreme virtue... is the art of surviving, or 'arrangiarsi,' of ingeniously finding one's way out of any tight spot.”

“Without a forge, there is no escape. So we're going to make one.”

“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”

“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.”

“Human ingenuity has its limits.”

“Every problem has a solution, you just have to be creative enough to find it.”

“The real creative genius is the man who can do the best thing with the least amount of means.”

“If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.”

“We had to get the most out of what we had. We had to be resourceful, we had to be ingenious, and we had to be unorthodox.”

“Necessity can sharpen the wit.”

“The ultimate resource is people—skilled, spirited, and hopeful people who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit, and so, inevitably, for the benefit of us all.”

“Human beings are not just more mouths to feed, but are productive and inventive minds that find new ways to support themselves.”