Top 100 Quotes About Teamwork
#1. If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
#2. There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#3. Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.
Ted Sundquist
#4. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!
Oliver DeMille
#5. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Scottie Pippen
#6. Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
David Halberstam
#8. When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
Russel Honore
#11. Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
Patrick Lencioni
#12. 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
#13. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
#14. Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.
Peter Senge
#15. What other hope does life hold out
But the miraculous, the skilled and patient
Execution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves?
Weldon Kees
#16. A crucial factor when achieving great success in the real estate industry, or any industry for that matter, is teamwork. Unity is a place of power.
Michelle Moore
#17. TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Justin Sewell
#18. You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.
George Halas
#19. Neil worried for a moment what they'd do with Andrew's rude brand of teamwork at their backs, but the next time he got a good look at Matt, Matt was grinning like this was the most fun he'd had in years. It
Nora Sakavic
#21. Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
Howard Schultz
#22. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.
Sue Tetzlaff
#23. In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.
Steve McConnell
#24. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
Douglas McGregor
#25. Do not hire those who are incapable.
Do not fire those who are capable.
A small, devoted army is greater
than a large, indifferent one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson
#27. The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
Malcolm Gladwell
#28. I am a horse for a single harness, not cut out for tandem or teamwork ... for well I know that in order to attain any definite goal, it is imperative that one person do the thinking and the commanding. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
Susan Cain
#29. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
Max McKeown
#30. Either love your players or get out of coaching.
Bobby Dodd
#31. 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
#32. Some people are hard to hold accountable because they are so helpful. Others because they get defensive. Others because they are intimidating. I don't think it's easy to hold anyone accountable, not even your own kids
Patrick Lencioni
#33. You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.
Matt Bahr
#34. You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.
Jim George
#36. It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.
Bob Ainsworth
#38. Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.
Ogwo David Emenike
#39. The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.
John C. Maxwell
#40. The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
H.G.Wells
#41. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
#42. Neighbor to neighbor. It is a mentality that has been fostered over centuries, since the earliest settlers realized the only way to survive in this desolate but beautiful outpost was to work together. Much of their music captures this spirit.
Jim DeFede
#43. 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
#44. As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.
Alexandra Adornetto
#45. When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
Pat Riley
#46. 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
#49. It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.
Laszlo Bock
#50. Communication and Connection Skillful Self-Expression What Do We Want? The Culture of Disparagement Appreciative Inquiry Gossip Paying Attention The Realm of Email Teamwork The Ripple Effect
Sharon Salzberg
#51. The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.
Steve Young
#52. Right preconceptions about people bring success in working with them.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.
Vinita Kinra
#54. A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
George Herbert
#55. A general is powerless without an army.
An army is directionless without a general.
To win battles a general and an army need each other.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
Abraham Lincoln
#57. The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
T. S. Monk
#58. I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
Lance Armstrong
#59. I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.
Alex Ferguson
#62. The ability of a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people pull together as a team.
Simon Sinek
#63. We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done.
Jeramey Kraatz
#64. Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success
Patrick Lencioni
#66. I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.
Claire Carver-Dias
#67. People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs
John Adair
#68. What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.
Joseph J. Lhota
#69. 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
#70. If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
Bud Wilkinson
#71. That being said, experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.
Patrick Lencioni
#72. In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.
Graca Machel
#73. A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.
John Wooden
#74. Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose.
John C. Maxwell
#75. The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
Pat Riley
#76. We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
Bill Joy
#77. A good team needs three things: the right people, the right spirit, and a couple inside jokes.
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#78. When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
Pat Riley
#79. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.
Walter Isaacson
#80. Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.
Jim Brown
#81. The price of excellence in teamwork is eternal vigilance
John Adair
#82. The one thing you need to know about teamwork is that there is more than one thing you need to know about teamwork.
John C. Maxwell
#83. My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
Gordon Brown
#84. Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
Carlos Wallace
#85. The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.
Cathy Rigby
#86. Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
#87. To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski
#89. Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
Patrick Lencioni
#90. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman
#91. There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.
Tom Landry
#92. 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
#93. I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.
Brad D. Smith
#94. Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#96. Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.
Robert Bales
#97. I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.
Robert Nardelli
#98. Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
Clay Buchholz
#99. There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team.
Michael Joling
#100. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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