Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

There is always a way to get what you need, and I really believe in taking what you have to make what you need.

I was a big jugaadoo.

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

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

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

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Everything that I make I use.