On Teamwork Quotes

#1. Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on "teamwork" is bunkum - a conspiracy of the mediocre majority.

David Ogilvy

#2. The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Margaret Carty

#3. If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

John Ortberg

#4. Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.

Peter Senge

#5. All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

Lou Holtz

#6. In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

Coco Chanel

#7. It had taken time for him to realize that no one was truly self-sufficient, and that those who thought they were merely took refuge in a form of weakness, the weakness of being unable to ask for help and guidance and thus find greater strength in reliance on close friends and comrades.

Simon Hawke

#8. I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#9. It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Patrick Lencioni

#10. Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Chuck Noll

#11. On one foot you limp;
on two feet you sprint.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist.

Kwame Alexander

#13. Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Vince Lombardi

#14. A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Pele

#15. If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

Darryl F. Zanuck

#16. By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

Ronald Reagan

#17. With wolves, solidarity is first but when they hunt, they change roles. The implicit hierarchy depends on who does what. In an organization one unique person makes a difference, but you need teamwork to make it happen.

C. K. Prahalad

#18. I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

Walt Disney

#19. Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

Richard Branson

#20. Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard.

Chris Bent

#21. Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

John Katzenbach

#22. There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

Henry Latham Doherty

#23. I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.

Pat Conroy

#24. A fractured team is just like a broken arm or leg; fixing it is always painful, and sometimes you have to rebreak it to make it heal correctly. And the rebreak hurts a lot more than the initial break, because you have to do it on purpose P.37

Patrick Lencioni

#25. When you're going through hell - just keep on going!

Winston Churchill

#26. If you do not trust your people, you will not get their whole-hearted effort and you will not capitalize on the enormous creative potential of cohesive and motivated teamwork. It

Jeff Atwood

#27. You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Bob Feller

#28. My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

Bear Grylls

#29. In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

Linda Ronstadt

#30. We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

Cynthia McKinney

#31. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Scottie Pippen

#32. A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#33. You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

Jim George

#34. Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.

Ogwo David Emenike

#35. The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

John C. Maxwell

#36. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#37. Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.

Giorgio Armani

#38. Ego is the ultimate killer on a team

Patrick Lencioni

#39. A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

George Herbert

#40. The ability of a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people pull together as a team.

Simon Sinek

#41. The most productive, healthy and satisfying relationships are based, not on a quid pro quo but an ebb and flow of mutual support over time. Don't just be a giver. Be an extremely helpful giver who demonstrates an awareness of what that person most needs.

Kare Anderson

#42. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.

Walter Isaacson

#43. The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications; teamwork; self-development; and development of others.

Peter F. Drucker

#44. You will shape up and get better ... But you'll always have others to rely on as well. It's the fact that we're not each a detective going solo. We're together. The unique talents of our friends fill in where we lack. There's nothing wrong with that.

Zechariah Barrett

#45. Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

Jody Williams

#46. Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

Kofi Annan

#47. Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

Pat Riley

#48. The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

Vince Lombardi

#49. 'Million Dollar Arm' touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation's core values, such as children, teamwork and family.

Joe Torre

#50. On our own, we are marshmallows and dried spaghetti, but together we can become something bigger.

C.B. Cook

#51. In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Robert Heller

#52. I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading. It is real teamwork on Soyuz.

Helen Sharman

#53. What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

W. Edwards Deming

#54. Sometimes people are lost because they're too afraid to look at the path. Sometimes people avoid the road for fear of what might be on it. It's easier to stand in the shadows and watch. "Teamwork.

Rebekah Crane

#55. Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.

John C. Maxwell

#56. As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

Jim George