Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

We find ourselves at times irked at the role of junior partner … nevertheless … partnership is worth the price.

At the end of the day, when you get a sponsor, it's a working relationship. So anyone I get involved with, I want it to be a working relationship where I'm generally trying to help them and they're generally trying to help me.

Me coming to Tampa made perfect sense. I felt like they had all the keys I needed and vice versa. I can help the team out and also they can help me.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That is, if you shirk and you try to make the other guy do more, he's going to do that to you.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

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

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

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

Exchange is creation.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

The great and overriding role of all alliances must be that of reciprocal interest.

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.