Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

You can’t do leadership alone.

Every person I work with, I learn something from.

Help me help you help yourself is kind of the motto I have.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

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

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

The ability to work together has to be in the blood of particle physicists. They learn very early on that it is impossible to advance on one's own and that constant exchange is necessary.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

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

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.