Quotes by Buckminster Fuller

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

(His Vision) To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

"The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's a different kind of life"

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

Technologically we now have four (seven!) billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and tender and compassionately attuned to other than self.

If the success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.