Quotes About Cooperation

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

As he had demonstrated with the Soviets, Baker recognized that the person across the table had his or her own domestic politics to worry about and he made a point of looking for ways to satisfy those needs while still getting what he wanted.

don't mind. I just thought you might not want to." The three men

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Create goodwill and support at every opportunity, for you never know when you might need it.

A human being cannot survive alone and be entirely human.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

issues of policy as well. They hit it off

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Look how you figured that out together. You made a plan, you listened to each other, you made a diagram … I don't think you would have figured it out without doing that.

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The species in which peace and mutual support are the rule, prosper, while the unsociable species decay.

Practicing mutual aid is the surest means for giving each other and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectual and moral.

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”

“Let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the Kingís Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.

the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;

If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand.

“Do not stop him,” Jesus replied, “for whoever is not against you is for you.”