Jeffrey Wright Quotes

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

I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

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

You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

Everything isn't about synergy.

Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

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.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

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

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

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.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

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

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.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

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

Trust is fundamental, reciprocal and, ideally, pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible. The best leaders trust their followers with the truth, and you know what happens as a result? Their followers trust them back. With that bond, they can do big, hard things together, changing the world for the better.

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

Partnerships are not just about bowling in tandem all the time. It all is about helping the other guy get in the right frame of mind.