Jonathan Sacks Quotes

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

Integration is a give and take.

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

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

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

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

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.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

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 want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Exchange is creation.

It takes two hands to clap.

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.

The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we both learn about each other. It's an equal win-win relationship.

When he [the Prophet Muhammed] died, his shield was being held in mortgage by a Jew. This was in the mutual interests of all those concerned. The Prophet (peace be upon him) had to buy things to fulfill the needs of himself and his family. The same sale was beneficial to the Jew who made the sale. Life does not operate on the basis of striving to deprive others of securing their welfare. It can only operate on the basis that our striving to secure our own welfare implies that others can secure theirs as well.

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.