A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

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

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

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.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

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.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

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.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

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.

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.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

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.

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

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

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

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

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Our best thoughts come from others.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

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

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.