Small Team Quotes

#1. I have a very small team by choice, because I don't believe in teams of 55,000 people.

Italo Zucchelli

#2. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

Steve Jobs

#3. One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.

Marcel Desailly

#4. I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.

Joe Johnston

#5. Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.

Wendy Williams

#6. My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.

Raymond Kwok

#7. Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

Daniel Nathans

#8. A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.

Simon Sinek

#9. Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Fred Wilson

#10. A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

Paul Bryant

#11. I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

Jonathan Ive

#12. There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

Jason Fried

#13. BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

Jonah Peretti

#14. I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

Nick Park

#15. 'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.

Angelina Maccarone

#16. team had joined the FOB at Hastings: a small village outside Freetown, a location chosen to maintain a low

Josef Black

#17. The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.

Lee Child

#18. The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.

Yossi Vardi

#19. As human beings we are all keenly aware of our own mortality, but although we know we all have to die eventually, there is some small amount of comfort in knowing that maybe it's something we could all do together, as a team. There is, after all, no "I" in "apocalypse.

Robert Brockway

#20. The girls are all talking and laughing, trying to get pumped up and for just one small sliver of a moment, I stop. Taking it all in because this is something I've really missed over the last year. The comradery of a team. The sisterhood of hockey players. Girls who have your back.

Jennifer Sucevic

#21. I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very, high dense level.

John Warnock

#22. When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.

Luis Garcia

#23. I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

Dennis Quaid

#24. There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

Michael Moritz

#25. I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out.' I made the team and everything happened from there.

Mark Buehrle

#26. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

Dean Smith

#27. Who you looking for
What is his name
you can prob'ly find him
at the football game
it's a small town
you know what I mean
it's a small town, son
and we all support the team

James McMurtry

#28. I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

Norman Borlaug

#29. If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Robert Kiyosaki

#30. You've got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Bill Gates

#31. In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

Jon Krakauer

#32. I've said this before elsewhere: There are plenty of opportunities to make a six-figure salary by attacking projects that would typically not be worth the time of a small engineering team. One person with a broad skill set can tackle it economically.

Anonymous

#33. Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

Peter Diamandis

#34. Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

Bill Parcells

#35. Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together!

Israelmore Ayivor

#36. Emphasize small goals when you have a team that isn't going to win a lot of games

Mike Dunlap

#37. To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

Gio Gonzalez

#38. At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Simon Van Der Meer

#39. Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team.

Ryan Holmes

#40. I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

Gabriel Luna

#41. 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

Dan Stevens

#42. It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.

Claudio Reyna

#43. She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

Susan Cooper

#44. I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

Katie Aselton

#45. As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

Patrick Lencioni

#46. I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.

Gerry Lindgren

#47. The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible,

Mark Zuckerberg

#48. A "grouplet" - a small, self-organized team that has almost no budget and even less authority, but that tries to change something within the company.

Daniel H. Pink

#49. I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

Sam Yagan

#50. I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

Charlie Day

#51. Her greatest joy in life was knowing that her importance to the team was by no means small and that, as narrow as that world might be, she had been granted a definite place in it. Someone needed her.

Haruki Murakami

#52. Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.

Richard Branson

#53. Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

Kevin Allen

#54. The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win ... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

Hugh Douglas

#55. The building block of organizations should be small teams. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, at one point had a "two-pizza team" rule,41 which stipulates that teams be small enough to be fed by two pizzas.

Eric Schmidt

#56. If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

James Surowiecki

#57. A leadership team is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization.

Patrick Lencioni

#58. When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

#59. Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

Brad Pitt

#60. Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

Sam Altman

#61. I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career, when there is an opportunity, albeit a small one, of being on the team, what a great way to possibly end my career.

Al Leiter

#62. I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Ed O'Neill

#63. The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

Harold E. Varmus

#64. The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Jack Ma