Quotes About Partnership

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

It takes two to have a fight.

The emotional intensity of a significant relationship is a stimulus that intensifies the drive toward togetherness. As each partner finds personal meaning in the relationship, the togetherness force becomes more intense, as though some sort of gravitational force were operating.

Marriage isn't just domesticity, or the continuance of the race, or institutionalized sex, or a form of property right. And it damned well isn't happiness, as that word is generally used. I think it's a way of finding your soul.

To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or a life diminished and confined. It was a game for adult players.

She's too much like him in temperament. Married couples should complement each other, and not merely double their losses. There's much to be said for the square peg in the round hole, as the Cubist told the Vorticist.

Odat? demarat? relaÅ£ia, de ce e atât de greu sa te desparÅ£i de acest partener care te târ??te dup? el în etapele pline de suferin?? ale acestui dans distrug?tor? Regula de baz? este: cu cât e mai greu s? pui cap?t unei relaÅ£ii pernicioase, cu atât înseamn? c? ea înglobeaz? mai multe elemente ale luptei din copil?rie.

95. Become your spouses number one supporter, the one who is always there supporting and fueling hopes and dreams. Develop together and march confidently through the world as an army of two.

I knew we were better together than we were alone, and better still than everyone else, and that was enough.

Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.

Durante más de doce años, Bruce Patton ha colaborado con nosotros en redactar y explicar todas las ideas de este libro. El año pasado se hizo cargo de la difícil tarea de volcar nuestro pensamiento conjunto en un texto con el que estuviéramos todos de acuerdo. Es un placer darle la bienvenida a Bruce, editor de la primera y coautor de esta segunda edición.

Even apart from a shared interest in averting joint loss, there almost always exists the possibility of joint gain. This may take the form of developing a mutually advantageous relationship, or of satisfying the interests of each side with a creative solution.

and they pooled their money to set up the new bank.

Since he never owned more than a third of his company, he needed the cooperation of other people.

a Morgan partner received a guarantee of riches and a seat on the high council of American finance.

After Pierpont Morgan's death, the House of Morgan would become less autocratic, less identified with a single individual. Power would be diffused among several partners, although Jack Morgan would remain as figurehead.

He tried almost from the beginning of our partnership to dominate and override me," he said of Clark.

As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.

McGregor won Rockefeller's absolute trust on all technical matters.

In dueling with Scott, Rockefeller didn't try to demolish him—as Scott might have done to him—but called a truce to strengthen their alliance.

Having helped Eliza keep the books, he enjoyed a head start.

As philosopher Herbert Spencer once said, "A business partnership, balanced as the authorities of its members may theoretically be, presently becomes a union in which the authority of one partner is tacitly recognized as greater than that of the other or others."16

As time passed, the strains between Gates and Harper grew intolerable.

Reacher said, "I wish I could send you ahead. Instead of me. You're a grown-up. I don't care what happens to you. Come if you want. Stay with us all the way. But stay with us on my left-hand side." "Why that?" "I'm right-handed. I like freedom of movement." "Understood. Let's go.