James Cash Penney Quotes

The best ideas start as conversations.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.

If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration.

I must remind the right honorable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.

I just think it's interesting to start a dialogue.

I love talking to people, and I'll listen to what they have to say, and if they have ideas or something like that, I'll put you to work.

I believe in taking people away from their desks and making them feel collaborative and inspire one another instead of being siloed.

There's a high level of communication between all of us at Marvel, and between Marvel and Lucasfilm.

Business is nothing more than relationships. It's the secret.

I talk to business; I talk to labor. I talk to everybody.

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

All I can do is share what I'm thinking - and learn from others.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.