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"The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion."
"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done."
"Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?"
"Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations."
"All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord."
"Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive."
"We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork."
"What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire."
"Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."
"Cultivate those who can teach you."
"With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good."
"In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind."
"I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization."
"Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him."
"The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication."
"Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered."
"You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail."
"If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive."
"When you're going through hell - just keep on going!"
"'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'"
