Ingenuity Quotes

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

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

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Human ingenuity has its limits.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”