R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I look for what needs to be done

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

Put me somewhere, tell me what to do, and I can get it done.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.

When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high. At this stage, I get to pick and choose a little more. Not that there aren't some things that have to be done, but I get a little more control over my time.

It can be hard to find time sometimes, but it's all about motivating yourself. I do whatever I can whenever I can.

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

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

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.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will get done.

There is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Whoever can, should.

You have to put in an effort in everything that you do, and you cannot just sit around expecting something to happen.

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

If you can inculcate in your team that every moment means everything, you can then step back to let them lead.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

I feel like I'm a guy you can give the ball to, and I'll run with it.