Resourcefulness Quotes

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Even when our kids were four, we would let them use sharp knives, and when they were seven or eight, we would let them use certain power tools. My wife, much to her credit, has this great saying: "I would much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid," which is a great attitude about life.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.