Dave Barry Quotes

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

I've always been a collaborator. For me, it's, 'What's the issue I'm trying to solve? Who are the people we need to bring around the table to solve it?'

I'm always working with other collaborators.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there.

A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.

There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.

You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That is, if you shirk and you try to make the other guy do more, he's going to do that to you.