Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

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.

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.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Networking is more about ‘farming’ than it is about ‘hunting’. It’s about cultivating relationships.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.