Team Member Quotes:

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

- Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

- Darryl F. Zanuck

topic: Teamwork, Time, Jobs, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

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

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

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

- Tony Dungy

source: "The Mentor Leader". Book by Tony Dungy, www.today.com. 2010.

topic: Leadership, Team, Nfl, Team Member

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

topic: Teamwork, Jobs, Organization, Team Member, Team Work Inspirational

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

- Yao Ming

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

topic: Basketball, Team, Matter, Team Member

A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

- Orrin Woodward

topic: Teamwork, Team, Leader, Team Member, Team Success

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

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

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

- Tahir Shah

topic: Teamwork, Achievement, Teammate, Leadership Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

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

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

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

source: Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

topic: Team, Champion, Individual, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Teamwork, People, Three, Team Collaboration, Team Member

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

- William Schutz

topic: Teamwork, Members, Feels, Motivational Teamwork, Team Member

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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Success, Teamwork, Team Building, Completing, Team Collaboration

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Soccer, Individual Performance

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

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

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

During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

- Bo Gritz

topic: Team, Digging, Laos, Debris, Team Member

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

- Patrick Lencioni

topic: Teamwork, Successful, Careers, Invulnerability, Team Member

Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. Teammates are vulnerable with one another; they are confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them.

- Patrick Lencioni

topic: Teamwork, Peers, Teammate, Team Member

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

- John Wooden

topic: Teamwork, Team, Members, Team Member

I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.

- Nita Ambani

topic: Team, Too Much, Members, Team Member

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

- Max Levchin

topic: Team, Hate, Successful, Respect Each Other, Successful Team

I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

- Richard Branson

source: Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

topic: Team, Responsibility, Giving, Team Member, Delegates

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

- Kent Beck

source: Kent Beck (2000). “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change”, p.28, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Team, Technology, Inability, Team Member, Business Change

Teams use trust as currency. If it is in short supply, then the team is poor. If trust abounds, the members of the team have purchase power with each other to access each others’ gifts, talents, energy, creativity, and love. The development of trust then becomes a significant leadership strategy. Trust creates the load limits on the relationship bridges among team members

- Reggie McNeal

topic: Team, Creativity, Bridges, Team Member

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

- Leonard Sweet

source: Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.68, Harper Collins

topic: Leadership, Team, Members, Team Member

In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race.

- Liz Halliday

topic: Running, Team, Next Day, Team Member

Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people.

- Michael Schumacher

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Team, People, Trying, Team Member

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

- John G. Stumpf

topic: Team, Members, Ceo, Team Member

I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff.

- LaVell Edwards

source: Source: universe.byu.edu

topic: Team, Book, Player, Best Coaches, Coaching Staff

Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session).

- David Livermore

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Team, Ideas, Creating, Diverse Teams, Team Member

I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.

- Sara Bareilles

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Team, Pride, Joy, Team Member, Stepping Back

But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.

- Carol D. Leonnig

source: "Politics Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal". www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

topic: Senior, Team, White, Documents, Team Member

I think the teams biggest struggle is remaining a team. It's kinda like a puzzle, If one piece of the puzzle is missing then the puzzle can't be completed. Every team member plays an important part.

- Katie Cassidy

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Team, Struggle, Thinking, Team Member

If you set up an atmosphere of community and trust, it becomes a tradition. Older team members will establish your credibility with newer ones. Even if they don't like everything about you, they'll say, 'He's trustworthy, committed to us as a team.'

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Team, Community, Atmosphere, Team Member

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

- Maynard Webb

source: "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

topic: Soccer, Meaningful, Team, Team Member, Self Fulfillment

I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

- Ben Silbermann

source: "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

topic: Team, Lucky, Honest, Team Member, Honest Relationship

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

- Patrick Lencioni

topic: Teamwork, Real, Foundation, Touchy, Team Member

A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly. They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They develop a richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person's point of view.

- Peter Senge

topic: Team, Unique, Views, Team Member