Collaboration Quotes

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Alexander Graham Bell

Business, Discovery, Mind

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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Funny, Wisdom, Truth

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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

Napoleon Hill

Motivational, Success, Teamwork

Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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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

Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.

John C. Maxwell

Two, Differences, Working Together

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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Phil Jackson

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Without community, there is no liberation.

Audre Lorde

Change, Community, Liberation

Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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

Golda Meir

Country, Working Together, Accomplished

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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

Andre Gide

Change, Being Yourself, Writing

"Les Nourritures Terrestres". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Teamwork, Competition, Today

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Many hands make light work.

John Heywood

Change, Teamwork, Hands

John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork, Common Vision, Individual Effort

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No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Halford Luccock

Life, Teamwork, Science

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Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.

Vicki Robin

Change, Sports, Team

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Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.

John C. Maxwell

Winning, Working Together, Multiplication

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You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

Chris Hadfield

Wall, Together, Bricks

Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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Effective collaboration is about maximizing time, talent and tools to create value. The old way was the pass-along approach. I do my job and then pass along my work product to you. You do your piece of it and pass it along to somebody else.

Evan Rosen

Jobs, Tools, Pieces

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There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

Ernesto Sirolli

Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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Live like a mighty river.

Gautama Buddha

Change, Rivers, Social Change

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I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

Frank Gehry

Ideas

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In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

Errollyn Wallen

People, Different, Lifetime

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