Cooperation Quotes

• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Teamwork, Competition, Collaboration

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Teamwork, Collaboration

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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  Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Business, Discovery, Mind

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Lessons, May, Gains

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

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• It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Self, Survival, Groups

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.

  Barry Nalebuff

  People, Listening, Important

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• Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Want

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  If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Teamwork, Discovery, Mind

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• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Teamwork, Business, Independent

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• International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

  Hans Blix

  Indispensable, Multilateralism, International

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• We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

  Alva Myrdal

  Lying, Men, Interest

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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• When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Real, People

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• What works in the real world is cooperation.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, World, Uncertain

  Bill Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Patriotic

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• Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Believe, Umpires

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, August 11, 1890.

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• To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Government, Korea, Target

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• And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

  Janet Napolitano

  Patience, Commitment, Play

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• Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.164, Bertrand Russell

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• It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Growth, Rising

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• This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Land, Effort, Way

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