Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

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

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

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.

There is always competition for influence, but there are also opportunities for cooperation.

One of the things with Canada is we're of a modest enough size that we never feel that the ideal outcome of any given deal is, we win and you lose.

Trade is a social act.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

Every man lives by exchanging.

The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

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

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

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

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

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.'

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

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

We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

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.

Begin with another's to end with your own.