Francis Picabia Quotes

The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

Those who go along get along.

It is possible for political forces to agree.

It takes patience to work with allies and to bring out the best in international organizations.

Decisions will be made to the contentment of all parties.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

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

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

Work together. Do not purge your allies because of purity.

With all the fighting we do and all the skirmishing we do, the reality is that New Yorkers can come together when they have to.

The most important thing is you should not be split or fighting each other.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Integration is a give and take.

I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.

One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever I get, you're not getting.' Changing that dynamic is going to be critically important for me as a leader, so that people don't feel they're pitted against each other.

You can't expect every idea of yours to stick or even come to fruition, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good of the team.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

(J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

When we cooperate, everybody wins.