R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

We should have more invention.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.

The next big project, you yourself have to conceive.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.