Nobody’s indispensable.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

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

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.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

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.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

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.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

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

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

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

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

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

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

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.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

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

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

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

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

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.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

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.

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

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.

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

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

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

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

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.