Jacob Zuma Quotes

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

A team is a team.

All the world looks to this nation for its future, for the leadership that is required at this moment. And we cannot give that leadership and we cannot offer it if we are split up in guerilla groups chewing on each other.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

I'm a teamworker.

Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.

Part of being a successful leader is listening and looking for opportunities to bring people together.

Everybody knows I am a team player.

I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it.

In any leadership, whenever you're facing a tough challenge, find ways to bring people together and get them to serve together.

It's one of those things I have been able to do - play well with my teammates and getting others involved.

Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.

You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

Let's try and bring out the best in all of us and a positive vision of working together to solve big problems, to recognize that, yes, all is not right, things need to be fixed. We're better off solving things by working together than by pointing fingers at other people.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.