Small Teams Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.

Markus Persson

#3. At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.

Robert Scoble

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

Brad D. Smith

#9. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

Jennifer Pahlka

#10. Done poorly, Conway's Law will prevent teams from working safely and independently; instead, they will be tightly-coupled together, all waiting on each other for work to be done, with even small changes creating potentially global, catastrophic consequences.

Gene Kim

#11. I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

Anthony Jeselnik

#12. Well, the Taco Bell burrito scale of immense magnitude returned an 'r' factor of point eight six. Then when I applied the nose-picking coefficient, I discovered a multivariate numeration of nine dot oh sixteen on the Richter scale.

Debra Dunbar

#13. I don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.

Miuccia Prada

#14. Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

George Carlin

#15. The NTSB operates with small, experienced teams, and each of its reports is approved by a senior board of five, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, empowerment and pride. Among

William W. Priest

#16. My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12.

Louie Anderson

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

Luis Garcia

#18. A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.

Tim Armstrong

#19. I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

Mayer Hawthorne

#20. Only the heart can speak or hear that which is authentic

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#21. Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

Jhene Aiko

#22. Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Gary Rohrmayer

#23. Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

Margaret Atwood

#24. Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams

Jacques Barzun

#25. Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

Victoria Osteen

#26. It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

Stanislaw Lem

#27. For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

John Bercow

#28. 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

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

Alain Prost

#30. 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

#31. Thankful Madiba for your legacy and your example. Youll always stay with us.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#32. It's only losers who think that winners never lose, who think that mistakes must be avoided at all costs. Mistakes are priceless opportunities to learn essential lessons.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#33. 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

#34. I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

Tom Rath

#35. I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

Lena Dunham

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

Italo Zucchelli