Top 100 Leader Team Quotes
#1. Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
Tom DeMarco
#2. The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.
Leonard Sweet
#3. Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team ... at the same time.
Tom Peters
#4. Great leaders build trust from their team because the leader is willing to put his/her people "first." Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well.
Beth Ramsay
#5. Cultural listening is the skill of being able to see beyond the symptom to the underlying dynamic. It's an extremely powerful tool to develop as a leader, whether you're the CEO, a team leader, or a solopreneur just starting out.
Jonathan Raymond
#6. The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.
Mike Krzyzewski
#7. He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime.
George Steinbrenner
#8. People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think it's a leader's responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, it's members want to show you their hearts.
Mike Krzyzewski
#9. As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
Colin Powell
#10. If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.
Bill Shorten
#11. A sign of a great team leader is the proper placement of people.
John C. Maxwell
#12. Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.
Chris Hogan
#13. The quarterback is the leader of the team and the quarterback is the one that has the ball in his hands every single play.
Andy Dalton
#14. A leader who always fiercely negotiates most exciting work for his team, may become popular, but not necessarily a great leader.
Bibhuti Kar
#15. My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.
Dwight Howard
#16. A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
Bill Courtney
#17. There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.
David Brooks
#18. The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability ... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.
Howard Schultz
#19. A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
Mike Krzyzewski
#21. This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#22. I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.
Gregg Sulkin
#23. Unfaithfulness of team members is a difficult test that may bring disappointment to a leader.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
Richard V. Allen
#25. A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.
Mike Krzyzewski
#26. The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.
Richard V. Allen
#27. Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
John C. Maxwell
#28. Just as water will not surpass the capacity of the container, a team's success will not surpass the capacity of the leader.
Orrin Woodward
#29. The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
Stephen Covey
#30. Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.
Andrew J Dubrin
#31. I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.
Larry Fitzgerald
#32. Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.
Frank Lampl
#33. When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
Mike Krzyzewski
#34. at Pixar, Steve couldn't shape the culture. He wasn't the founder, and even as owner, he could not change the company to reflect his image and sensibilities. It already had a culture. It already had a leader. Its cohesive and collaborative team knew exactly what it wanted to do.
Brent Schlender
#35. The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.
Mary Parker Follett
#36. You are either supporting the vision or supporting division
Saji Ijiyemi
#37. A charismatic leader doesn't use fear and guilt in order to control his team. He will rely on his positive outlook that's going to make people follow him happily.
Jack Robinson
#38. Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.
Paul Sloane
#39. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Harriet Harman
#40. To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
Morgan Wootten
#41. Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.
Andrew Whitworth
#42. Sometimes i feel that i am unlucky due to couldn't enroll in the Harvard Business School but at least by this encouragement that i enrolled in MBA in Human resource management program whereas i grown as a leader and build the team in the field of HRM through motivation.
Avinash Advani
#43. The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.
Richard V. Allen
#44. I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.
Freddy Adu
#45. To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.
David Niu
#46. I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.
George Osborne
#47. If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
John C. Maxwell
#48. Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.
Tony Dungy
#49. The two qualities of Friendship so important for a leader to possess and instill in team members are respect and camaraderie.
John Wooden
#50. 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
#51. I have always been a leader on my team. I have always been a guy that held player-only meetings. I'm the type of guy that stood up and said something. I know how to lead.
La'el Collins
#53. To be a leader, you must first be a team player, and you must care for the men you lead.
Dick Couch
#54. there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.
John Wooden
#55. The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
Bill Courtney
#56. As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.
Diane Dreher
#57. I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.
Tom Rath
#58. But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.
Ron Jaworski
#59. Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.
Ken Blanchard
#60. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.
Lee Ellis
#61. The greatest way to ensure your company's failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team; who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.
Steve Maraboli
#63. It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
Johnny Damon
#64. On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.
Tom DeMarco
#65. I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.
LeBron James
#66. Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.
Laurent Jalabert
#67. God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps.
Jim George
#68. Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart.
Jon Gordon
#69. Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!
Brian Houston
#70. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#71. He'd done it again. Screwed up in a social situation and dragged the whole team down with hm. His new team. The ones who were counting on him to be a leader on and off the field. He'd led them, all right, almost into a brawl.
Jami Davenport
#72. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#73. HBO is undeniably a leader in meaningful storytelling in a wide array of formats. I'm honored to join the REAL SPORTS team and look forward to continuing my fervor for uncovering unique and impactful stories.
Soledad O'Brien
#74. 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
#75. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#76. You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#77. The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.
Jim Rohn
#78. A team leader will have to deal with difficulties that he needs to know about in advance
Sunday Adelaja
#79. You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
Don Meyer
#80. What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.
Tom DeMarco
#81. Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.
John P. Kotter
#82. The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.
Paul Sloane
#83. As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.
Jane Ripley
#84. You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
Geoff Stults
#85. Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
Travis Bradberry
#86. Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.
Martin Zwilling
#87. I've been a solo act, a columnist and worked from home, only relying on myself. Now I'm part of a team, a leader, and I have to fit in at a big corporation and deal with all the moving parts, all the different personalities. That has been a challenge, to be quite honest, that I've embraced.
Jason Whitlock
#88. Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.
Michael Dell
#89. Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret Seven together and help him stop the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Shade agrees - albeit reluctantly.
Peter Milligan
#90. Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.
Kenichi Ohmae
#91. I've been part of a team and leader of the team. But wherever I've been, I've worked as if that was the only opportunity I had. I've never looked beyond that.
Guler Sabanci
#92. And you managed to pick up on all that while being hung upside down by a fellow agent, getting yourself beat to shit by your new Team Leader and tormenting your baby brother in the showers?"
"Yes. I would have had more, but you know, I was momentarily distracted by all the soapy six-packs.
Charlie Cochet
#93. A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
Mike Krzyzewski
#94. I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.
Ellen J. Barrier
#95. what makes you a leader is the will to lead, not the knowledge how to do it best. You just have to be bright enough to listen to those who do know, and make the decisions that they don't want to be responsible for. That's how a team works.
Adrienne Lecter
#96. A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#97. Respect, honesty, responsibility, and hope are the language of a great team leader.
Samuel R. Chand
#98. I know I touch a lot of people. I don't call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders
Spoken Reasons
#99. A leader can only be free to lead his team if he keeps abreast of all that is happening around him - in real time.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#100. It is equally important that we now secure the right deal for Britain - and the next leader must have the skill and credibility to put together the right team to renegotiate our exit from and future relationship with Europe and explain the final terms to the British people.
Nicky Morgan
