Negative Quotes

“With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.” ~Patrick Dempsey

“Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.” ~Mario Puzo

“The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.” ~Anna Brownell Jameson

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.” ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.

“He that does good to another does good also to himself.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65) Roman philosopher and playwright.

“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.” ~Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine.

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” ~Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss-U.S. scientist.

“If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.” ~Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

“Come together” ~the Beatles (From the Song Come Together)

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist.

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Thirty-fourth President of the USA.

“Union gives strength.” ~Aesop (620 BC-560 BC) Greek fabulist.

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” ~Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British logician and philosopher.

“Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.” ~William Arthur Ward (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)

“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police” ~ Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” ~ Dwight David Eisenhower (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)

“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish born American Inventor and Educator, best known for the invention of the telephone in 1876. 1847-1922)

“Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.” ~ Juan Antonio Samaranch

“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.” ~ Bertrand Russell (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

“Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.” ~ John Ruskin (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)

“A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.” ~Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.” ~Li Peng

“But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.” ~John Abizaid

“Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.” ~Robert Nozick

“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.”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.” ~Christopher Dawson

“Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.” ~Khaleda Zia

“For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon.” ~Alain-Fournier

“French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.” ~Ali A. Saleh

“Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?” ~Horst Koehler

“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.” ~Alexander Graham Bell

“Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.” ~William Kirby

“Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.” ~Gustav Stresemann

“Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.” ~James Cash Penney (founder of J.C. Penney’s)

“I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.” ~Dan Lipinski

“I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.” ~Mohamed ElBaradei

“I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.” ~Alan Autry

“I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.” ~Paul Hoffman

“I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.” ~Peter Arnett

“If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.” ~John Ashcroft

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” ~Buckminster Fuller (American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect “Geodesic Dome”)

“Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.” ~Joe Namath