A Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive. — © R. Buckminster Fuller
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
The catch in the industry is that if you want to get a picture made for little money, you have to get a big star. But the two are usually mutually exclusive.
Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.
Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.
I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.
A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.
Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
Who needs checks and balances when the left, seemingly, knows and can decide right from wrong? When the left can decide what can be said and what cannot be said? When the left can decide how much money you're allowed to make or whether or not you deserve health care? It is a quest for power. And, it is dangerous.
Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.
I'm not going to force your participation in a conversation, I'm going to say I can be an example that these things can exist and don't have to be mutually exclusive. Like being a queer artist and being a Christian. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive and I'm just going to be honest about them so that you know.
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.
The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.
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