Collaborative Advantage Quotes

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

We could build just about anything that you could dream of. But that's not the question. The thing that Beats provides us is a head start. They provide us with incredible people that don't grow on trees.

Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

Strategic partners are way more important than money.

The great and overriding role of all alliances must be that of reciprocal interest.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Help another and you will be the one who benefits most

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

We can squabble between the siblings in Europe and not be very productive and then see China and the U.S. win over the European region. Or - and this is my preferred choice - we team up together and are the strong region that we want to be, using each others' strengths and building on our commonalities to become the smartest region in the world.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.

Those in power at Disney, the very generous figures at Disney Animation, have convinced themselves I'm a good-luck charm for their movies, which is great. It's working out really well for me, and it seems to be a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

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.

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

All societies are formed by the concurrence or union of the wills of several persons, with a view of acquiring some advantage.