R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

God helps those who help themselves.

God helps those who help themselves.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.

Our world demands action, not passivity; actors and not mere spectators.

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

But I mean, I'm a confident kid. I want to be a kid that kind of drives the bus, doesn't just be a passenger.

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

Let me be the one To do what is done.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

Why I'm so stimulated by [producing] is it becomes more proactive. Instead of waiting around for a script to come in, or some movie trying to go. You're waiting around always for that opportunity, which is great, but I like to be a little bit more proactive. I'm a very action-oriented guy - I'm a doer. The company really became this spearhead for that sort of attitude, and so that, to me, was the most exciting part of it.