- “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” - Charles Darwin
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” - Helen Keller
- “If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.” - Darryl F. Zanuck
- “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” - Henry Ford
- “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton
- “It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, and another to hear.” - Henry David Thoreau
- “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” - Edwin Land
- “I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.” - Golda Meir
- “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” - Napoleon Hill
- “No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.” - Althea Gibson
- “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” - Phil Jackson
- “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” - Henry Ford
- “The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.” - Thomas Carlyle
Got others? Lay them on me!
This post is dedicated to Ramsey Margolis
Don’t miss an article (2,850+) – Subscribe to our RSS feed and join our Innovation Excellence group!
Mitch Ditkoff is the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions and the author of “Awake at the Wheel”, as well as the very popular Heart of Innovation blog.
Related Posts
| |











Your Darwin quote was never actually said by Darwin. It’s one of many quotations wrongly attributed to him. For more examples, see http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/six-things-darwin-never-said
Thank you for sharing some really interesting and most importantly true quotes about collaboration!