Team Leadership Quotes:

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

- Harvey S. Firestone

topic: Leadership, Helping Others, People, Innovation And Leadership, Leadership And Service

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

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Top Management, True Leader

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: Leadership, Business, Character, Good Character, Inspiring Leader

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

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

- John Buchan

topic: Inspirational, Greatness, People, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership Skills

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership, True Leader, Innovation And Leadership

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

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, True Leader

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Motivational, Success, Teamwork, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

- Bill Bradley

source: "Unlocking Your Potential: The Keys to Discovering Your Hidden Treasure". Book by Wade D. Sadlier, 2011.

topic: Leadership, People, Vision, Untapped Potential, Leadership And Management

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

- Tony Blair

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Art, True Leader, Funny Leadership

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top 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

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

- John C. Maxwell

source: "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Young Entrepreneurs, True Leader

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

- Henry Ford

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Customer Experience, Model T

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

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

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

- Allan Fromme

topic: Teamwork, People, Achieve, Working With Others, Inspirational Team

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

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 one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

- Halford Luccock

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

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Leadership, People, Titles, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Earn your leadership every day.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Leadership, Inspiring Leader, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Motivational Leadership

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

- Henry Ford

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

- Henry Miller

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Business, Lead Characters, Leadership Courage

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Differences, People, Management Motivation, Innovation And Leadership

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Influencing People, Inspiring Leader

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

- Aristotle

topic: Leadership, True Leader, Commanders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership In Education

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Leadership, Difficult, Command, Inspiring Leader, Leaders Motivational

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

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

source: Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

topic: Teamwork, Player, Goal, Inspirational Football, Sports Team

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

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2003). “The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team”, p.182, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Team, Wrestling, Work Ethic, Personnel, Team Leadership