Tom G. Palmer Quotes

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

It is ... difficult to induce a number of free beings to co-operate for their mutual benefit.

We talk about "rugged individualism" and "personal liberty." My dear friends, both of those disappeared from the earth the day the first colony of cave men held a conference around a community fire.

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

Politics is the art of providing for the general welfare. It's the great human cooperative institution. It, in principle, is not competitive. It's an attempt of a community of people to get together in order to solve their problems …

One man is not enough.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

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

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

Everyone needs help from everyone.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.