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

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.

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

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

Our best thoughts come from others.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

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

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

To lead people walk behind them.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

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.

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

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

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 have surrounded myself with very smart people.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

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.

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

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

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.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

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 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.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I made the track ‚Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola‘ before I met Balvin.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

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.

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

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.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

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

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

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!

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

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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

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

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

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.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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.

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.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.