William Godwin Quotes

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

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.

The story of the merchant is told by the marketer. They need each other, and if they get along, it's peanut butter and jelly. If they don't, it's oil and water.

When you're dealing with a bunch of different producers, you gotta make sure the chemistry fits.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

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

Collaboration is really important.

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

There are lots of ways to work together.

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

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.

It takes patience to work with allies and to bring out the best in international organizations.

A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of “peaceful co-existence.”

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

A huge amount of negotiations and diplomacy has nothing to do with bartering or arguing but is just trying to get everyone [doing the negotiating] on the same page. It takes yours, days, even weeks sometimes.

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

I really do need the help of other people working with me.

I always hear some couples can't work together, and I don't get that. We have the most fun when we're working together.

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

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

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.

This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.

Sometimes people forget just how closely MWR and JGR work together.

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.

You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.