Quotes About Cooperation

People work together when it suits them. They're loyal when it suits them. They love each other when it suits them. And they kill each other when it suits them.

The hand does not argue with the head.

An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

either on a competitive or a cartel basis.

See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

When two sides to an issue become adversaries, cooperation is lost. The result is gridlock. Time and effort and energy are consumed that are desperately needed elsewhere.

If you take anything away from this class, I want it to be the belief that cooperative, mutually beneficial change is still possible between big business and environmental interests.

Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky . . .

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

To oversimplify, we overwhelmingly search out opportunities to play Stag Hunts rather than outsmart each other in Prisoner's Dilemmas.

No matter how strange it may look, most people are actually trying to be helpful.* That

Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.