Teamw Quotes:

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

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

- Stephen Covey

topic: Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration, Inspiring Team Building, 7 Habits

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

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

- Douglas McGregor

topic: Teamwork, Boss, Prestige, Inspirational Teamwork, Team Collaboration

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

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

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

- Mark Twain

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

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

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

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

- George Shinn

topic: Loss, Men, Self, Cooperation And Teamwork, Reaching Your Goals

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

- Charlton Ogburn

source: "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

topic: Teamwork, Later In Life, Creating, Arbiter, Reorganization

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Dream, Dream Team, Teamw

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

- George Herbert

source: "The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall".

topic: Teamwork, Dwarves, Two, Best Team, Dwarfs

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge, Importunate, Collaborating

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

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

- Tahir Shah

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

- Jason Kidd

topic: Team, Years, Play, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

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

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

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

Many hands make light work.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

topic: Change, Teamwork, Hands, Many Hands, Inspirational Team

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

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

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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

It takes two flints to make a fire.

- Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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