Bill Gates Quotes

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

Collaboration is the way to go. It's very timely and fun to do.

I love collaborating with other really smart, incredible people.

[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

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.

Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun.

The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

Actors just need each other to act together.

For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance.

Collaboration is multiplication.

Nobody can succeed on their own.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

I like to adapt to a director's way of working. I love doing that. Each director is so different, and you have to adapt to this new way of doing something. That's what's amazing to me. That's why I love directors. I don't want to director to have to work around me. I think it's more fun for me to come in on their thing.

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Collaboration equals innovation.

Hollywood is so small that everyone has either worked with someone or knows someone who knows someone and so it was kind of easy and fun. And I think there's something exciting about being, like, "Hey! Welcome to the set!" and making everyone feel welcome, and making it fun, 'cause everybody knows what it's like to be the new kid.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

I'm always open to discussing collaborations.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

In every disagreement in your marriage, remember that there is not a winner and a loser. You are partners in everything, so you will either win together or lose together. Always work together to find a solution.