Quotes About Cooperation

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

When we launched WeWork back in 2010, we saw our opportunity to build community by bringing people together.

We need folks to help us, as opposed to, 'Let's find who to blame, and let's try to bury those people.'

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.

A united, functional opposition really could stop Brexit.

If we want the next generation to be born into a better world, we only have one option. And that is strong multilateralism, with the U.N. System at its core.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.

It's manifestly in everyone's interest if the U.K. leaves the E.U. in an orderly, friendly and constructive way.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.

Organisations and institutions are, at the end of the day, manned by people who put their shared vision above individual interests.

I am a multilateralist. I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges than with global responses, and organised in a multilateral way.

As I found while leading special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the problem is interconnected, your organization must be, as well.

Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

You come into Congress, and in the orientation, pretty quickly, you're separated out by party. Which makes no sense, if you want to get a body that works as a body, that learns to be able to work as a body.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

We all need each other.