Quotes About Collaboration

Until you become as willing to ask for help as you are to give it, however, you are only working half the equation.

Stop driving yourself—and everyone else—crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful.

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —MARGARET WHEATLEY

by giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone.

SUCCESS IN LIFE = (THE PEOPLE YOU MEET) + (WHAT YOU CREATE TOGETHER).

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

We discovered that the most important factor in successful selling has become the ability of sellers to collaborate with their buyers, at every stage of the buying process.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music.

What you're looking for is power and force, without volume--an inner power. A way to bring together what everybody in that room is doing and make one sound. So it's not two guitars, piano, bass and drums, it's one thing, it's not five. You're there to create one thing.

Then the bass player would be battened off, so they were all in their little pigeonholes and cubicles. And you're playing this enormous room and not using any of it. This idea of separation is the total antithesis of rock and roll, which is a bunch of guys in a room making a sound and just capturing it. It's the sound they make together, not separated.

His understanding of the DNA code in all bands is that sooner or later the two principals will turn on each other because one of them will be driven crazy by the knowledge that to be at their best they need to perform with the other person and therefore they need that other person to be successful, or even to be heard. It makes you hate that person.

He told me that because he was left-handed, he and John could play the guitars like mirrors opposite each other, watching each other's hands.

We're both pretty lousy, but together we are better than ten others.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Every student is unique and brings contributions that no one else can make.

Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin, neither of which can be understood properly without taking account of the other.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Ya writin' a book? Hey great. Need some help? Want some of my quips? Hey, we could do it together. We'd quip 'em to death. Give 'em quiplash hee hee hee.