Betsy Hodges Quotes

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

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.

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

The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

People must work in unison.

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

You are only as good as your team.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

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.

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to outshine each other. Whereas if you have 14 of those actors trying to shine a light on one person, and each of them is trying to make the other look good, you have a much more interesting process.

Everything isn't about synergy.

Nobody can defeat you when you all are working together.

I'm more like a team person.

I had a lot of success, of course, but whatever was achieved was due to a group effort on the part of all the players.

No one needs to have their way all the time, first of all, but second of all, if you find the right partner, as a couple, you're going to create something together that is going to be better than what you could do or have individually.

One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world.

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

We all can't shine at the same time.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.