Sam Walton Quotes

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Partnerships are not just about bowling in tandem all the time. It all is about helping the other guy get in the right frame of mind.

Help others reach world-class. And they'll joyfully help you get to your best.

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.

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.

Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.

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

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

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.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

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

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

We find ourselves at times irked at the role of junior partner … nevertheless … partnership is worth the price.

I learned early on that success is best if it is shared.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.