Stephen Covey Quotes

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

I know what I do well, and I know what I can do with other people.

When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

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

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

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

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

Collaboration is really important.

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

There are lots of ways to work together.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really.

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

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 am a believer in cooperation.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

It's so much nicer to be able to do your job with someone who's helping you, and you're helping them. Then, it becomes a tennis match where you're hitting the ball back and forth, and you're a team.

If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.