Quotes About Collaboration

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.

Watch out for the other guy. Watch out for his interests. Watch his back. Forget about fifty-fifty, son. Fifty-fifty's a losing proposition. The only winning proposition is one hundred percent. Make your win about the other person, go after what he wants. Forget win-win—focus on the other person's win.

always be on the same side.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

It is why boards were invented, to add sufficiently diverse wisdom to counter a single leader.

Directors need to be happy constructively questioning and criticizing each other,

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time.

Help others get ahead. you will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.

Working right through lunch is a false economy. The value of that extra time at your desk or in saved expenses pales in comparison to the cost of a lost opportunity to learn or grow or to invest in an employee. If you skip lunch or eat lunch alone, you are wasting opportunities.

What makes a great leader is not how much they know, but rather by who they surround themselves.

But I do wish some of these young reporters had the opportunity I had to work more closely with editors who could help them shape a story and make it better. "They still get edited, but not the way I worked with editors every step of the way on a story—it was the way we all learned the craft in those days. Today we just don't have that many people.

together on solutions to fix them.

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

By mid-1966, an astounding eighty-eight Lennon-McCartney songs had been recorded in over 2,900 versions. Gershwin finally had competition.

The new repertoire, almost to a song, had lost its collaborative aspect. They were individual efforts—

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

You can disagree on everything but still work together on one thing... if that one thing is important enough.

I'm one in four, and a real rock 'n' roll band is not run by the singer. Led maybe, but not run.

In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

disregard the old maxim which says, "Do not get others to do that which you can do yourself." My motto, on the other hand, is, "Do not do that which others can do as well.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.