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"The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur … The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition … on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best."Michael Dell (1965–), US founder, CEO, and chairman of Dell, Inc.
Speech to the Executives’ Club of Chicago.
Source: “NetSpeed: The Supercharged Effect of the Internet” (October 23, 1998) -
"Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers."Barry J. Nalebuff (1958–), US author and management academic
Source: Co-opetition (cowritten with Adam M. Brandenburger, 1997) -
"Virtually all economic activity in the contemporary world is carried out not by individuals but by organizations that require a high degree of social cooperation."Francis Fukuyama (1952–), US economist and writer
Source: Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995) -
"When you collaborate with other people, you tend to regard your own individual contribution as the most important."Yang Jiang (1911–), Chinese playwright and writer
Source: A Cadre School Life (1980) -
Chester Barnard (1886–1961), US business executive and management theorist
Source: Organization and Management (1948) -
Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847–1903), US journalist and reformer
Source: Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894) -
"Men will find that they can … avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action."Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), Dutch philosopher
Source: Ethics (1677), pt. 4, proposition 35, note

