Collaborative Growth Quotes

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

Often people ask me what my job is, and I say, honestly, it is to make others successful, and the more you do that, the more you will see that you create prosperity.

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.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Learn from the masses and then teach them.

I'm the first person to shamelessly admit that I don't know it all. With that said, my attitude is if such that if I don't know something I want you to enlighten and inform me so we can grown and get somewhere together - even if that means we ultimately agree to disagree.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together.

Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

To get to world-class, don't miss any opportunity to leverage the learning/insights/experiences of the people you meet. Because we really do become our conversations.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.

It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.

There was a lot of dialogue between the people who were developing Flickr and their users to get feedback on how they wanted Flickr to develop. That interaction made the initial community very strong, and then that seed was there for new people who joined to make the community experience strong for them, too.