David Joseph Schwartz Quotes

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

Luckily, I've just had a lot of people around me that have helped me through it because I wouldn't even be close to where I am if I didn't have the support system I do. I wouldn't be able to do it on my own.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

You're not on your own. You're doing things with other people. This is very important for me.

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.

At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me. It's important to go seek help when you need it, and to give help when other people need it. And that is really more important than coming in with a gigantic brain into the astronaut program.

You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

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

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around and said: 'No man is self-made;' and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary.