Quotes About Successful Teams

#1. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas

Tony Dovale

#2. You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

Max Levchin

#3. The researchers eventually concluded that the good teams had succeeded not because of innate qualities of team members, but because of how they treated one another. Put differently, the most successful teams had norms that caused everyone to mesh particularly well.

Charles Duhigg

#4. This is why a venture capitalist will always follow the maxim of investing in the team, not the plan. Since the plan is wrong, the people have to be right. Successful teams spot the flaws in their plan and adjust. So

Eric Schmidt

#5. Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#6. He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.

Ryu Murakami

#7. To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

Martha Beck

#8. Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.

Rick Yancey

#9. I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.

Casper Van Dien

#10. One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.

Tom Ford

#11. I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

Curt Schilling

#12. I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

Ed Belfour

#13. Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected ...

Jacqueline Ripstein

#14. I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

Phil Niekro

#15. the more successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral goals: 89 percent of the top third versus only 33 percent of the bottom third. For instance, a behavioral goal might be that project teams would meet once a week

Chip Heath

#16. I use "perpetrated" because it's the kind of word that passive-voice writers are fond of. They prefer long words of Latin origin to short Anglo-Saxon words - which compounds their trouble and makes their sentences still more glutinous. Short is better than long. Of the 701 words in

William Zinsser

#17. Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.

David Beckham

#18. Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.

#19. Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

Bruce Rauner

#20. Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams.

Ken Olsen

#21. I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

Margaret Hamburg

#22. Move thy tongue,
For silence is a sign of discontent.

Elizabeth Cary

#23. Software architecture plays a pivotal role in the delivery of successful software yet it's frustratingly neglected by many teams.

Simon Brown

#24. When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

Andrew Luck

#25. Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

Jude Morgan

#26. The true art of memory, is the art of attention

Samuel Johnson

#27. Trust in yourself and trust in the future;
it will be bright and beautiful as nature.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

George Orwell