Cooperation And Collaboration Quotes:

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Letting Go, Marching Forward, Joint Efforts

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

source: "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty, Joint Efforts, Inspirational Team

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Inspirational Football, Individual Performance

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

- Simon Sinek

source: Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

topic: Team, People, Together, Cooperation And Collaboration, Cooperation Teamwork

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

- Simon Sinek

source: Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

topic: Team, People, Working Together, Team Building, Cooperation And Collaboration

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge, Importunate, Collaborating

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Teamwork, Competition, Collaboration, Economic Competition, Cooperation And Collaboration

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Spiritual Unity, Inspirational Team

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Discovery, Mind, Cooperation, Environmental Stewardship, Cooperation And Collaboration

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork, Individual Power, Individual Work

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Heart, Multiplying, Cooperation And Collaboration

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Change, Teamwork, Collaboration, Win Win, Social Change

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Jobs, Ocean, People, Maritime, Innovative Leadership

Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 03, 2012

topic: Giving Up, Mean, Doe, Opposing, Synergy

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Motivational, Success, Teamwork, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

- Robert Reich

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Long, Long Term, Cooperation And Collaboration

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Teamwork, Player, Together, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

- Halford Luccock

topic: Life, Teamwork, Science, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

- Jessica Alba

topic: Communication, Collaboration, Sometimes, Recipe For Success, Cooperation And Collaboration

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Winning, Share, Team Building, Cooperation And Collaboration

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

- Henry Dreyfuss

topic: Design, Clients, Collaboration, Cooperation And Collaboration

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Teamwork, Learning, Mean, Inspirational Team Building, Win Win

Many hands make light work.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

topic: Change, Teamwork, Hands, Many Hands, Inspirational Team

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

- Althea Gibson

topic: Motivational, History, Accomplishment, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

Two heads are better than one.

- Unknown

source: John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Kissing, Japanese Proverbs, Kissing And Love

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Collaboration, Cooperation, Impossible, Cooperation And Collaboration

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

- Phil Jackson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Individual Power, Inspirational Team

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

- Darryl F. Zanuck

topic: Teamwork, Time, Jobs, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

- Donald Knuth

topic: Strong, Links, Lists, Sports Team, Inspirational Team

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

- Babe Ruth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Baseball Games, Softball Player

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

- Ken Robinson

topic: Teamwork, Growth, Collaboration, Cooperation And Collaboration

Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.

- Danielle LaPorte

topic: Life, Trust, Opportunity, Going With The Flow, Cooperation And Collaboration

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

- J. William Fulbright

topic: Educational, Men, Empathy, Exchanging, Cooperation And Collaboration

Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.

- Aurora Levins Morales

source: Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.125, South End Press

topic: Integrity, Heart, Self, Commonality, Cooperation And Collaboration

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

- Patrick Lencioni

source: Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspiring Team Building, Inspiring Teamwork

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

topic: Mean, Creating, Hands, Cooperation And Collaboration, Cooperatives

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

- Willard Libby

topic: Achievement, Effort, Groups, Collective Effort, Cooperation And Collaboration

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

- Barack Obama

topic: Effectiveness, Creating, Government, Broken Promises, Cooperation And Collaboration

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

- Joshua Redman

topic: Strong, Player, Creative, Cooperation And Collaboration