Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. Cicero

• cooperation

Ah consensus... the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"? Margaret Thatcher

• cooperation

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. Dwight Eisenhower

• cooperation

It's better to be in an expanding world and not quite in exactly the right field, than to be in a contracting world where peoples' worst behavior comes out. [In the latter,] your mind is grooved in defensive and rent-seeking types of ways. Eric Weinstein

• competition
• occupation
• cooperation