Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Our nation must come together to unite.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

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.

Nobody’s indispensable.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

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.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

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.