There is strength in numbers.  But more to the point:  There is success in numbers. 

It’s a hard lesson for us, but ‘conscious cooperation’ will always produce results greater than individual endeavors.  Team work divides the effort and multiples the effect.

"Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."  ~Vince Lombardi

Let’s go into this more deeply. For example in a pulling contest at a county fair, the first place horse ended up moving a sled weight 4,500 pounds.  The second place finisher pulled 4,000 pounds.  The owners of the two horses decided to see what these horses could pull together.  They hitched them up and found that the team could pull more than 12,000 pounds!  When coupled together, their synergism produced an added 3,500 pounds.

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.  You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. " ~Babe Ruth

In a small village there was a custom that helped the villagers size up the future happiness of a newly married couple.  After the wedding in the local church, the village women would escort the bride and groom to a nearby forest and stand and watch them cut down a tree.  they would hand the young couple a two-handed bucksaw and ask that they use it to cut the tree down.  the closer the cooperation between the man and wife, the shorter the time it took for the tree to come down.  And the older villagers reasoned that, the shorter the time the happier the couple would be because they had learned that the most valuable lesson of marital lessons-teamwork!

"Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is success."  ~Henry Ford