Barack Obama Quotes

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

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

The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

States working together can achieve more than what even the most powerful state can accomplish by itself.

Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation's security.

I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.

The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.

We cannot just rely on the public sector or the private sector. We all need to work together.

As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.

By collaborating, you can do very interesting things.

We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

And that's why the president has asked the entire government to step up, on his part. I mean, there's - there are things that the private sector needs to do; there are things that the government needs to do.

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

You can't win together if you don't work together.

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system.