Collaboration Quotes

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

~ Charlie Caruso

As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.

~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

~ Amit Ray

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

~ Max Mckeown

Never expect others to be like you, it can be the biggest nightmare!!! Collaboration and synchronization needs to be found in the difference

~ Harrish Sairaman

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

~ John Green

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

~ Natasha Tsakos

Treat every connection, communication and collaboration as part of a continuous relationship.

~ Kim Chandler Mcdonald

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. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the same manner. The seasons change; and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.

~ David Hume

There is no such thing as healthy competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

~ Tom Demarco

We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

~ Parker J. Palmer

Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.

~ J.a. Perez

There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you.

~ Erica Bauermeister

Three-Step Method for Making Stronger Connections: Take the Triangle Talk approach to connecting and reaching agreement with others: You, Me, Us. First refer to their interest, then yours - and then note how your interests coincide. This approach enables diverse people to gain traction sooner toward a common goal.

~ Kare Anderson

If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

~ Jamie Dimon

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

~ Harold Prince

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

~ Issey Miyake

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

~ Neville Chamberlain

Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.

~ Ricky Reed

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

~ Antony Starr

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

~ Martin Jacques

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

~ Steve Lacy

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

~ Tim Hunt

This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.

~ Krist Novoselic

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

~ Joshua Prince-Ramus

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

~ Don Tapscott

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

~ Freeman Thomas

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

~ Tim O'reilly

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

~ Priyanka Chopra

To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

~ Elizabeth Thornton

The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.

~ Chris Evans

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

~ André Gide

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

~ André Gide

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

~ Satya Nadella

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

~ Don Tapscott

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

~ Tim Gunn

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

~ Jennifer Aniston