Synergy Quotes

• Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Individual
  • Collaboration
  • Effects

• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Spirit
  • Creative
  • Adventure

• I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Synergy

• The idea to write fresh, radio friendly pop songs would get an extra dimension if I could use two different voices. The synergy between the three of us has resulted in something magic, something which I could only describe as being Mike & The Mechanics.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Magic
  • Idea
  • Voices

• I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There's no greater reward.

  

  Ming-Na Wen
  • Reward
  • Respond
  • Entertainers

• Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Attracts
  • Opposing
  • Co-creation

• Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Change

• The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Kind
  • Creativity
  • Chaos

• The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Looks
  • Economy
  • Synergy

• Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Power
  • Change
  • Powerful

• My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

  

  Henry Sy
  • Real
  • Together
  • Development

• We’re in early days of working out exactly how we’re going to bring to life the synergy plans for greater revenue growth and profit growth.

  

  James Quincey
  • Growth
  • Profit
  • Synergy

• When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

  

  Blaine Pardoe
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Honor

• Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Together
  • Quality
  • Plant

• There's quite a bit of sense and synergy in putting them together.

  

  Chris Avery
  • Together
  • Sense
  • Putting

• I believe in the synergy and sharing platforms.

  

  Warryn Campbell
  • Platforms
  • Synergy

• Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

  

  Michael Bergdahl
  • Team
  • Secret
  • Ability

• Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience spontaneous combustion - an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of adventure to life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Passion
  • Spiritual
  • Vision

• The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Differences
  • Weakness

• I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Opportunity
  • Kind
  • Missing

• Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Differences
  • Activity

• As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Balance
  • Roles
  • Synergy

• Difference is the beginning of synergy.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Differences
  • Synergy

• Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Challenges
  • Profound
  • Determine