Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

As a music industry, if we remain in competition, then we die. We have to understand that we're all in this together. Collaboration and synergy, it's one of the most important things out there.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.

Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

A shared experience can energize a team toward its common goal more quickly than a direct order ever will.

At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.

A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

System-wide changes rely on a critical mass of interested parties, all willing to enter into deep partnerships and collaborations, founded on new levels of trust and a commitment to action, not debate.

If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, collaboration tools are becoming increasingly affordable, allowing even the smallest firms to implement enterprise-grade solutions that can significantly improve communication lines between employees and customers.

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

There's going to be a symbiotic relationship between the edge and the cloud.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

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

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

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.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.