Team Management Quotes:

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

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

- Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

- Stephen Covey

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

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

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Top Management, Management Motivation

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

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

- Peter Drucker

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

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

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

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

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

- Patrick Lencioni

topic: Teamwork, Knowing, Doe, Inspirational Team, 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

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

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 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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Volleyball, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Football Coach

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Business, Insperational, Leadership And Management, Leadership Skills

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence, Put First Things First, True Leader

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Life, Leadership, Insperational, Top Management, Put First Things First