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"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
"This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding."
"The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life."
"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."
"Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it."
"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."
"When somebody shares, everybody wins."
"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."
"What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together."
"Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play."
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities"
"If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow."
"Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity."
"TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results."
"Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people."
"In union there is strength."
"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."
"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
"There is no 'i' in team but there is in win."
