Top 100 Team Work Work Quotes
#1. Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.
Jordan Spieth
#2. There might be exceptions - and if so, you might rethink their employment - but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution - to find purpose in their work.
Stephen R. Covey
#3. One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.
Sam Altman
#4. A leader who always fiercely negotiates most exciting work for his team, may become popular, but not necessarily a great leader.
Bibhuti Kar
#5. I knew before I came to Arsenal what kind of players were here. And of course, in training, you can see how many good players are here; the most important thing is that we work well as a team - that's the most important thing.
Mesut Ozil
#6. If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.
Sam Altman
#7. People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.
Amy Winehouse
#8. I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.
Jeet Banerjee
#9. You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
Pat Gillick
#10. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Robin S. Sharma
#11. If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'
Jurgen Klinsmann
#14. When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
Carine Roitfeld
#15. If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work, and you have to improve. Every year, you must get better.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#16. If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently.
Chris Bosh
#17. If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view,
Vijay Mallya
#18. The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
John Katzenbach
#19. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
John Katzenbach
#20. If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.
Russell Malone
#21. To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don't know.
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
#23. I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.
Kris Holden-Ried
#24. It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them.
Jonny Wilkinson
#26. I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.
Randy Falco
#27. I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.
Suzanne Collins
#28. Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.
Steve McConnell
#29. Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.
Diplo
#30. Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals.
David Chiles
#31. At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I'd call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: "What is this damn thing about?" Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.
Steven Pressfield
#32. Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.
Jack Johnson
#33. When a team has to work over a weekend, make a high priority of being there as well, even if it's just to stop by and buy them a meal to show your appreciation.
Scott Weiss
#34. You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.
Michael Franzese
#35. I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
Alexander Wang
#36. A family member of mine was diagnosed with lymphoma, and the treatment they're getting wouldn't exist if it weren't for the work that Team in Training does. I want to support them.
Colin Egglesfield
#37. If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
Steven Sinofsky
#38. My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.
Jack Welch
#39. People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.
Ron Garan
#40. I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.
George M. Gilbert
#41. Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.
Stephen Covey
#42. If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.
Jillian Ellis
#43. One of the Scrum rules is that work cannot be pushed onto a team; the Product Owner offers items for the iteration, and the team pulls as many as they decide they can do at a sustainable pace with good quality.
Craig Larman
#44. This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.
George M. Gilbert
#45. Having a social appetite for knowledge and wanting to develop and improve as a coach is important, but I believe in empowering people, particularly the other coaches that work with the team, giving them ownership and responsibility.
Warren Gatland
#47. We had a policy of "no looking back". Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions.
"Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work.
John Wood
#48. Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios.
Mike Krieger
#49. Every time you see someone in distress, you have the opportunity to work as a team with Heaven's angels. You become the channel for your angels to provide loving care to those in need.
Doreen Virtue
#51. I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.
Lionel Messi
#52. 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
#53. Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."
Johan Cruijff
#54. But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
A. M. Rosenthal
#56. I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.
Jess Glynne
#57. Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
Rudolf Arnheim
#58. 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
#59. We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.
Robert Kraft
#60. In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
Jed S. Rakoff
#61. I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
David Cassidy
#63. It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
Dale Earnhardt
#64. I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance.
Sarah Rafferty
#65. Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.
John P. Kotter
#66. I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.
Jonathan Ive
#67. One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me.
Josh Gad
#68. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.
Jim Highsmith
#69. Kanban lets your team members motivate themselves as they decide what to work on. They take ownership of the task and their pride is measured in the number of completed tasks. They
Aleksandar Olic
#70. The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.
D.A. Wallach
#71. Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.
Mark Harmon
#72. At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos.
Jay Woodman
#73. You have the capacity to do the work.
Find the willpower to begin work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. ~~~
Wherever his team went, Dex seemed to pick up a fan following. Something about the guy fascinated Humans and Therians alike. Sloane was still trying to work out what it was. Especially since the guy was...well, kinda weird. Then again, crazy had a way of attracting crazy.
Charlie Cochet
#75. If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.
Anne Sweeney
#76. Without planning, we are individuals with haphazard connections and effectiveness. We are a team when we plan and work in harmony.
Kent Beck
#78. You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
Ram Shriram
#79. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
Jay Chiat
#80. I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.
Alexander Wang
#81. When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.
Mary Barra
#82. My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.
Tom Sizemore
#83. A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.
LeBron James
#85. Without Ruth's partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.
Billy Graham
#86. You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game ... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
Joe Montana
#87. There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#88. Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team's or organization's culture. It's not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It's 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?
Bill Jensen
#89. If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.
Sam Altman
#90. In my new business, this is one of the things we work actively with CEOs to see: how one idea from the top can spiral into 100 projects for the team and overwhelm them in ways the CEOs can't even imagine. But
Jonathan Raymond
#91. The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.
Rhianna Pratchett
#92. I do love fashion. I certainly wouldn't suffer all the stress that comes with it if I didn't really love it. I always talk about the team of people I work with every day. They share that passion.
Marc Jacobs
#93. A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Chuck Page
#94. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.
George M. Gilbert
#95. Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.
#96. Sure, there were people from Missouri and Illinois who grew up Cardinals fans and migrated to New York for work or love. Cardinals fans congregate periodically at Foley's near Herald Square to root for the team of their childhood, up there on the TV screen.
George Vecsey
#97. Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
Vince Lombardi
#98. I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously. I can't wait to begin production on my next film so we can be reunited.
Dori Berinstein
#99. I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.
Blair Underwood
#100. Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.
Cy Young
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