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Better together. 45 quotes, each with where it was said.

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Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people.
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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich (1937)
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Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
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Stephen R. CoveyFirst Things First (1994)
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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George WashingtonLetter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments (1759)
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Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.
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George WashingtonLetter to Benedict Arnold (1775)
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It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
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George WashingtonLetter to James McHenry (1798)
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By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.
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Dwight D. EisenhowerAs quoted in The Federal Career Service: A Look Ahead (1954)
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Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
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Jimmy CarterInaugural Address (1977)
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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace.
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Jimmy CarterNobel Peace Prize lecture (2002)
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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Barack ObamaNew Hampshire primary night speech (2008)
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom (1994)
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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Mahatma GandhiHarijan (1938)
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I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
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Frederick DouglassLecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement (1855)
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Susan B. AnthonyThe Revolution (1869)
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With such women consecrating their lives, failure is impossible!
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Susan B. AnthonySpeech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention (1906)
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Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.
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Helen KellerAs quoted by Joseph P. Lash in Helen and Teacher (1980)
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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Isaac NewtonLetter to Robert Hooke (1676)
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You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
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Grace HopperInterview, The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Jane GoodallWith Love (1999)
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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AristotleNicomachean Ethics, Book VIII
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Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.
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SenecaMoral Letters to Lucilius, Letter VII, tr. Richard Gummere
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Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
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Sun TzuThe Art of War, Chapter V
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A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.
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Sun TzuThe Art of War, Chapter V
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Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
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Sun TzuThe Art of War, Chapter X
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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Ralph Waldo EmersonEssay 'Prudence', Essays: First Series (1841)
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We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work.
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Steve JobsFresh Air interview with Terry Gross, NPR (1996)
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The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
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Peter DruckerManagement: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant.
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Peter DruckerManaging for the Future (1992)
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
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David OgilvyOgilvy on Advertising (1983)
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Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
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Richard BransonPost on Twitter (2014)
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Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from the efforts of one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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Howard SchultzPour Your Heart Into It (1997)
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
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Jack WelchJack: Straight from the Gut (2001)
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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Jack WelchJack: Straight from the Gut (2001)
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Employees first, customers second, shareholders third.
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Herb KelleherInterview, CNBC
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWind, Sand and Stars (1939)
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
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Michael JordanI Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence (1994)
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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Vince LombardiAs reported in Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001)
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
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John WoodenThey Call Me Coach (1972)
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A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player.
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John WoodenIBM television commercial, The Prodigy (2003)
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Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.
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Babe RuthBabe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928), ch. 10
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I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
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Mia HammGo for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life (1999)
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It's about putting them in a position to be successful.
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Mia HammInterview with Forbes (September 11, 2023), on the next U.S. coach
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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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Phil JacksonWidely attributed; echoes Rudyard Kipling's line about the wolf and the pack, which Jackson used with his teams
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Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
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Phil JacksonWidely attributed to Sacred Hoops (1995)