Ray Allen Quotes

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.

Even though this is a business you do have people here that you're with every day, like your family. You want to go play for them and you want to win with them. You have to find a way to do that but understand that there is a business side to it. You have to find a way to understand.

I've got my own mind, and I'll talk about it, but I'm willing to listen. I'm very balanced like that. If you don't want a guy who's balanced, who wants to win, and can bring people together well... I don't know.

If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

You can't be a team player today and not a team player tomorrow.