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25 Quotes on Collaboration

Learn from successful people about the importance of working with others.

Behind every great person... are a bunch of other people. Learn more about the power of collaboration.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that. —Klaus Schulze

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. —Mike Rutherford

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick. —Brian Eno

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. —Freeman Thomas

It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. —Charles Darwin

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. —Helen Keller

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. —Henry Ford

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. —Isaac Newton

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. —Edwin Land

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. —Golda Meir

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. —Napoleon Hill

The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other. —Thomas Stallkamp

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. —Ryunosuke Satoro

Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed. —Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. —Althea Gibson

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. —Phil Jackson

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. —Henry Ford

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. —Thomas Carlyle

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. —Casey Stengel

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival. —Jeremy Gilley, TEDTalks lecture

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. —David Hume

Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. —Vince Lombardi

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. —H.E. Luccock

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. —Andrew Carnegie

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