Great Teamwork Quotes:

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

- Mattie Stepanek

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Teamwork, Collaborating, Inspirational Team

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork, Individual Power, Individual Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

source: "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty, Joint Efforts, Inspirational Team

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

- Rensis Likert

source: Rensis Likert (1967). “The human organization: its management and value”, McGraw Hill

topic: Loyalty, Motivation, Business, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

- Phil Jackson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Individual Power, Inspirational Team

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Athlete, Drills, Inspirational Athlete

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Teamwork, Individuality, Rowing, Individual Work, Inspirational Team

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

- Halford Luccock

topic: Life, Teamwork, Science, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

- Althea Gibson

topic: Motivational, History, Accomplishment, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

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

source: Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Mistake, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

- John Wooden

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

- Babe Ruth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Baseball Games, Softball Player

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Teamwork, Peace, Unity, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Teamwork, People, Failing, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Kids, Inspirational Team Building, Leadership And Management

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Jobs, Inspirational Team Building, Leadership And Management

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Basketball, Great Coach, Basketball Teamwork

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

- Jean-Francois Cope

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Teamwork, Great Teamwork, Unity And Teamwork

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

- Steve Jobs

source: "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. 2003.

topic: Teamwork, People, Guy, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

- Phil Jackson

topic: Teamwork, Surrender, Enough, Inspirational Coach, Basketball Coaching

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

- Ted Sundquist

source: Ted Sundquist, Justin Spizman (2013). “Taking Your Team to the Top: How to Build and Manage Great Teams Like the Pros”, p.7, McGraw-Hill Professional

topic: Teamwork, Block, Creating, Inspirational Team Building, Motivational Teamwork

The difference between success and failure is work.

- Jack Hyles

topic: Differences, Success And Failure, Great Teamwork

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

- Clay Buchholz

topic: Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work, Team Working, Teamwork In Education

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Teamwork, Money, Business, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

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

topic: Teamwork, Learning, Mean, Inspirational Team Building, Win Win

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Inspirational Football, Individual Performance

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

- James Cash Penney

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Men, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

The path to greatness is along with others.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Teamwork, Greatness, Path, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Individual Performance, Marriage Advice

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Letting Go, Marching Forward, Joint Efforts

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Oneness, Inspirational Team Building, Inspiring Team Building

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Teamwork, People, Effort, Leadership Teamwork, Developing

It takes two flints to make a fire.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Love, Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspirational Teamwork, Best Team

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

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Teamwork, Great Love, Together, Building Things, Inspirational Team Building

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

- Patrick Lencioni

source: Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspiring Team Building, Inspiring Teamwork

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

- Dennis F. Kinlaw

topic: Teamwork, Destiny, Ideas, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

topic: Teamwork, Light, Toil, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

- Pat Riley

source: Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

topic: Teamwork, Careers, Way, Inspirational Coach, Sports Coach