Mick Foley Quotes

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't hear the word 'no' - I hear 'find another way to get what you want.'

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

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

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.

The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.