Quotes About Collaboration

Lots of people have plenty of ideas; lots of people have plenty of money, but in the end, if you want to turn that money into profit, you have to do it through others.

I always make sure my film benefits my producer and earns him a profit.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

If companies shared profits with their workers, employers and employees would have a greater mutual interest in each other's success.

What I love in television is when you have the banter between the presenters, that's what makes a really good programme. That's why it is so important for me to have good relationships with people I'm commentating with.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

We would write our songs, then we'd have a programmer come in and add, for lack of a better term, bloops and bleeps on top of everything. Of course, the funny thing is that a lot of the modern-day dance music people are super-influenced by the '70s and '80s stuff that we already love. So it was a natural fit for No Doubt.

We have had conversations with Lucasfilm, and we continue to have them. I think it would be wonderful to extend that brand onto our programming.

Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.

The major change was going from 'Black and White' to 'Fable,' because I was no longer programming, and I had spent most of my time designing through programming, and only working with people I knew well.

I think $100 at the end of the year doesn't mean a lot to me, but $100 from everyone in the state at the end of the year could mean lots of programs that could be good for Hawaii.

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.

All the work I'm able to be a part of through Grizzlies Prep, Code Crew, our mentoring programs and with the Grizzlies Foundation, they all go hand in hand because the kids are our future.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

Binaries definitely keep us from progressing. Imagine if we didn't have political parties and just had people who worked together to improve the life quality of everyone.