Brad Feld Quotes

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

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

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

If you bring people together, you’ve got something. If you can’t bring them together, you don’t got nothing.

What I realized is that no matter what you do, you're not alone in life. Every accomplishment worth a salt, there is someone else there who played a role and took a part.

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.

I get to partner up with all different types of opportunities.

You need collaboration of its people; it's the only way to improve a company - can you ignore that? You need a win-win for every sub-group, which will ensure exponential growth for a company.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

Kickstarter was already up and going when I got the Fellowship. Spending time with the other Fellows was about camaraderie, and I talked to a lot of amazing and creative people.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

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

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

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

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.