Economy Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

14 Economy quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

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Fuller’s vision treats the economy as a living system that must be engineered for efficiency. This modest collection of 14 insights invites readers to rethink growth through the lens of sustainability and holistic design.

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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

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Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the…

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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must…

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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers…

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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be…

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We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical…

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U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that…

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Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and…

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There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million…

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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

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I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

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The opposite of nature is impossible.

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You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his…

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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible…

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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

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