Quotes About Collaboration

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

If you want to build a business, build the people.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

Get your customers involved in your business. Make them your partners and they'll never leave you.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.