Top 100 Building Team Quotes
#1. To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
Pat Summitt
#2. Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
Meredith Belbin
#3. It does not matter who is in your team, what matters is who they will become because of you
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter ... are matters of your heart.
Tony Dovale
#5. You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.
Herb Brooks
#6. We are adults undertaking a team-building activity in a professional capacity, so naturally we spend several minutes horsing around, striking poses with our paintball guns and making sound effects. Joshua and Sergeant Paintball watch us like orderlies at a mental facility.
Sally Thorne
#7. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas
Tony Dovale
#8. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
John Katzenbach
#9. It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
Gene Hackman
#11. Communication is a major key to building any strong relationship, whether it is the relationship one has with oneself or with others. Sinful communication weakens yourself, weakens those you care about, and thus weakens your team.
Shay Dawkins
#12. There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
Bill Belichick
#13. We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.
Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation
Tony Dovale
#14. We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
Bob Ainsworth
#16. Yes, yoga may make your company a better place to work for people who like yoga. It may also be a great team-building exercise for people who like yoga. Nonetheless, it's not culture.
Ben Horowitz
#17. Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Dean Smith
#18. Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.
Vince Lombardi
#19. Sometimes it takes a while to find that perfect balance between knowing who you are, what your sound is, and building the right team to make that happen. Once it all really comes together and it makes sense, both for the audience and your fans, there's no stopping you.
Judith Hill
#20. No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.
Jane Ripley
#22. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.
Marlene Caroselli
#23. Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel
#24. I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
Jamie Oliver
#25. A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Chuck Page
#26. Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Bruce Coslet
#27. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
Dean Smith
#28. Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect
Linda Howard
#29. Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset
Tony Dovale
#30. Chemistry is a contribution that teammates make to each other, but it's also something a coach can create or facilitate.
Tony DiCicco
#31. I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.
Daniel Boulud
#32. We email, teleconference, webinar, but we are not in the room with the people. It is a false connectedness - artificial team-building. It's like eating the menu instead of the food.
Linda Robinson
#33. Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.
Don Kardong
#34. It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!
Dan Jacobs
#35. When building a team do not look at people's weaknesses, instead look at their strengths.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.
T Jay Taylor
#37. I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
Bill Belichick
#38. You are either supporting the vision or supporting division
Saji Ijiyemi
#39. Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that ... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#40. Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.
John Doerr
#41. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.
Henrik Fisker
#42. I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.
Ruchi Sanghvi
#45. Building companies rules of the game have all changed today. It used to cost millions of dollars to do anything substantial. You'd get VC backing & then you'd hire the team to build it. Now it's deploy or die.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#46. Building a team is just the beginning, keeping it together means progress and working together is success.
Henry David Thoreau
#47. People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
Allan Fromme
#48. Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
Pat Gillick
#49. When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.
Michael J. Saylor
#50. If you don't know how to train then you can never grow.
Honeya
#51. Unlike a lot of other game companies that, once they launch a game, downsize their teams radically, our plan is to keep the team together and continue to focus on building content.
James Ohlen
#52. The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.
Sean Quinn
#53. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson
#54. Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
Carlos Wallace
#55. It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
Dale Earnhardt
#56. Building a team is the nucleus for every piece of success.
Chris Ducker
#57. Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Smote.' I haven't gotten to use that word since my days upstairs. I kind of miss it. Lots of pomp and circumstance in a word like that." He tapped his chin as the smile became sly. "Downstairs we just say slaughter or massacre or team-building exercise.
Rob Thurman
#62. Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!
Brian Houston
#63. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself
Tony Dovale
#64. Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Patrick Lencioni
#65. Maneuvers toward you). It was exciting for the two junior members, but also for those of us who were more seasoned, because we were building the team, adding to the experience of jumpers who'd later be capable of joining us for even bigger formations. I was to be the
Eben Alexander
#66. The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.
D.A. Wallach
#67. A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
Bruce Rauner
#68. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
Max McKeown
#69. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#70. People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.
Ben Horowitz
#71. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.
Thomas Gordon
#72. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.
Carlos Wallace
#74. You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.
Kathryn Minshew
#75. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
Fred Wilson
#76. In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.
Bill Courtney
#77. I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
Ike Barinholtz
#78. It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
Casey Stengel
#79. Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.
Jay Samit
#80. When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord.
Sunday Adelaja
#81. A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
Lee Iacocca
#82. Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
Patrick Lencioni
#83. Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
Fred Wilson
#84. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
Tony Dovale
#85. The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.
Lawrence R. Klein
#86. I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.
Herman Cain
#87. Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset.
Tony Dovale
#88. Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a chef de cuisine, chef of the kitchen, and that means that I'm in charge of a team.
Paul Rankin
#89. Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.
Morag Barrett
#90. Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.
Ashish Patel
#91. We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
Bill McCartney
#93. Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.
Jane Ripley
#94. The building block of organizations should be small teams. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, at one point had a "two-pizza team" rule,41 which stipulates that teams be small enough to be fed by two pizzas.
Eric Schmidt
#95. When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
Ross Perot
#96. It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#97. Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.
Pat Summitt
#98. There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team.
Michael Joling
#99. Leaders #1 job is to help their people, teams, leadership, and culture, to be #FutureFit...by supporting People, Planet & Profits, in a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace... today.
Tony Dovale
#100. People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.
Meg Whitman
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