Harper Reed Quotes

Two people can work on a problem better than one.

One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

I think probably the moments of failure have been when I didn't really understand that other people were around to actually help me. There were moments when I thought I had to solve everything on my own, and I didn't realize that I had resources.

I absolutely love collaborating with other people, but I think it's so important to always be able to rely on yourself because there are ups and downs in this industry.

It's never just about one player. Together, you have to figure out other ways to score and get opportunities.

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

Playing two people is definitely difficult, but it's made possible by everyone around me, and it's a big team effort.

I've gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.

If I can do something, I do it. If not, I give the ball to someone else.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.

It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.