Elia Kazan Quotes

The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I love to collaborate! That's totally my preference. And I feel like everything I do ends up being that way.

We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.

A leader who has to go it alone is no longer leading anybody.

it’s no longer doing things to people. It’s not even doing things for people. It’s doing things with people.

Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to the football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.

There are lots of ways to work together.

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

I am a believer in cooperation.

Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

Politics is the art of dominating men.