Team Working Quotes:

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

- Jim Stovall

source: Jim Stovall (2015). “Ultimate Hindsight: Wisdom from 100 Super Achievers”, p.191, Sound Wisdom

topic: Motivational, Positive, Winning, Helpfulness, Work Environment

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

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

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

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

- Meredith Belbin

topic: Teamwork, Mind, Want, Great Minds, Motivational 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

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

- Mark Twain

topic: Teamwork, Together, Bonus, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Teamwork, Problem, Solve, Team Working, Teamwork And Love

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Views, Providing, Benefit Of The Doubt

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Skills, Individual Performance, Inspirational Teamwork

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball, Sports Team, Motivational Baseball

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Support, Team Building, Behavioral Change, Team Working

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Fun, Educational, Team Working, Teamwork In Education

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

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

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.210, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Inspirational, Mean, Joints, Team Working

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

- Robert Crandall

topic: Business, Team, Player, Inspirational Team Building, Leadership Teamwork

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

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

- Max De Pree

topic: Teamwork, Real, Groups, Inspirational Teamwork, Team Work Inspirational

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

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

- Dennis F. Kinlaw

topic: Teamwork, Strong, Pride, Inspirational Teamwork, Personal Worth

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

- Robert Schumann

topic: Teamwork, Play, Ensemble, Motivational Teamwork, Best Team

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

- Reid Hoffman

source: Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.83, Random House

topic: Business, Team, Games, Successful Team, Entrepreneur Motivational

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Business, Great Company, Daily Business

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Motivational, Sports, Dog, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Hockey

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

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Spiritual Unity, Inspirational Team

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

- Henry Ford

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

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

- Henry Ford

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

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

- John Donne

source: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

topic: Teamwork, Men, Islands, Indivisible, Inspirational Diversity

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

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

- Dean Smith

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Play, Sports Team, Inspirational Team

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Teamwork, Helping Others, People, Team Building, Team Building Inspiration

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

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.

- Clay Buchholz

topic: Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work, 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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Teamwork, Confidence, Reality, Individual Performance, Individual Work

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

- Isaac Newton

source: "Wilson vs Watson: The Blessing of Great Enemies". www.newscientist.com. September 10, 2009.

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

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Jobs, Ocean, People, Maritime, Innovative Leadership

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

- Vince Lombardi

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

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

- Donald Knuth

topic: Strong, Links, Lists, Sports Team, Inspirational Team

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

- Jason Kidd

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Witty, Sports Team, Funniest Sports

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

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

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

- Robert Orben

source: Robert Orben (2000). “Speaker's Handbook of Humor”, Merriam Webster

topic: Teamwork, Inspiration, Laughing, Motivational Teamwork, Team Building