Ben Harper Quotes

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

We all can't shine at the same time.

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

I love collaborating.

We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

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.

I think the most diverse group will produce the best product; I firmly believe that.

I love collaborating with different voices.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2.

We gotta bring new ideas to the table and empower each other.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

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.

Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.

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

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.