Great Team Member Quotes

#1. The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

Maynard Webb

#2. If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#3. I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

Virginia Wade

#4. The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.

Ian Watson

#5. Andy Hertzfeld, an original member of the Apple team and now an engineer at Google, once said that what Jobs taught him was to "follow your heart" and only great work comes out of doing what you adore.

Carmine Gallo

#6. The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. [But] I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so little that is positive good, even if we negatively avoid what is actively evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Great teams make clear and timely decisions and move forward with complete buy-in from every member of the team, even those who voted against the decision. They leave meetings confident that no one on the team is quietly harboring doubts about whether to support the actions agreed on.

Patrick Lencioni

#9. To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.

Bootsy Collins

#10. Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.

Mary Oliver

#11. My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.

Peter Morville

#12. I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.

David Einhorn

#13. If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

Richard Dawkins

#14. The caterpillar does not boast to the world of its plans; it just shows up a butterfly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Each of us is affected by what happens to the other. Just as our movement interact on the field, so our lives interact to a certain degree. This is what is so great about being a member of a team.

Erik Lund

#16. Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Tom Kristensen