Joseph Heller Quotes

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

At the end of the day, when you get a sponsor, it's a working relationship. So anyone I get involved with, I want it to be a working relationship where I'm generally trying to help them and they're generally trying to help me.

Me coming to Tampa made perfect sense. I felt like they had all the keys I needed and vice versa. I can help the team out and also they can help me.

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

One hand washeth another, and both the face.

The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

The easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

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.