Quotes about teamwork
Bob Feller -
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
Edward Abbey -
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Bill Walton -
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Ants are successful creatures they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!
Summer Glau -
I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.
Helen Keller -
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much
Ed Catmull - Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.
Ogwo David Emenike -
With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.
Janna Cachola -
Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder.
Jeremy Rabkin -
The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there's enough honor in doing a hard job when you have to.
Vinita Kinra -
Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.
Nkem Paul - The Art of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams Into Reality!
You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.
Michael Joling -
My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.
Patrick Lencioni - and Facilitators
Ego is the ultimate killer on a team
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
It is only individual great forces, which must be pulled together, in our common vision of combating the climate change.
Henning Mankell - The Fifth Woman
It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.
Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen -
Strange how this war was making them all Americans.
V.S. Parani - Golden Stripes - Leadership on the High Seas
Your leadership responsibilities are the real golden stripes
Sara Sheridan - Brighton Belle
Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.
Max McKeown - The Strategy Book
Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.
Biz Stone - Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
Mark W. Boyer -
We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is.... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.
sundayadelaja -
Your team will be either a major problem or blessing for you
Cheryl A. Bachelder - Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
Jim George - A Husband After God's Own Heart
You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.
Ogwo David Emenike -
You can't do it better without teamwork.
Ogwo David Emenike -
Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.
Steve Jobs - Steve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom
Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people
Unarine Ramaru -
I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.
John Kuypers - Who's The Driver Anyway? Making the Shift to a Collaborative Team Culture
If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.
-Shandel Slaten -
It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted.
Lionel Messi -
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Bang Gae -
Teamwork makes the dream work
Ogwo David Emenike -
Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I will work while I can.
Chris Matakas - The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.
Mattie Stepanek -
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mike Krzyzewski -
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Jean-Francois Cope -
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Jean-Luc Godard -
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
John T. Chambers -
We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.
Bob Ainsworth -
Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.
John T. Chambers -
Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.
Daley Thompson -
Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership.
Patrick Lencioni -
Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
Bill Simmons -
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
Patrick Lencioni -
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Brian Tracy -
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.
Darell Hammond -
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
Michael Jordan -
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
James Cash Penney -
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
Ken Auletta -
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -
Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.
Jim George - A Man After God's Own Heart
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Geoff Dyer - Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff
Biz Stone - Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Herman Melville - The Whale
The frenzies of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them might have felt before; these were not only now kept out of sight through the growing awe of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed, as timid prairie hares that scatter before the bounding bison. The hand of Fate had snatched all their souls; and by the stirring perils of the previous day; the rack of the past night's suspense; the fixe
H.G. Wells - A Modern Utopia
It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.
Krishna Saagar -
You don't see the world as it is, you see it,as you are.
Ryan Holiday - Ego Is the Enemy
It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.
Doris Kearns Goodwin - and the Golden Age of Journalism
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
Dr. Karan M Pai -
I believe "If you're "managing" people rather than leading them and tracking time rather than results, you've already lost. Give it up."I do not manage people, I lead them
Steve Young -
The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.
Carlos Wallace - The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
Anoop Ashok -
The following are not my words, i have seen it some where . But i wish to share it here for every one ....Two ice cubes jump from fridgeThey laugh each other...Hug and Enjoy each other...Smile to every oneSuddenly they melt each other and remained a little water...Changed in to water ????They asked each other!!!In this water which is Me and You??Finally they found outFrom now there is no Me and YouONLY WE .......
H.G. Wells - A Modern Utopia
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -
An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.
Ogwo David Emenike -
Of what need is teamwork without a common goal?
Eunice Parisi-Carew - Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.
Eunice Parisi-Carew - Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.
Vijay Dhameliya -
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
Kwame Alexander - The Crossover
Basketball Rule #6A great teamhas a good scorerwith a teammatewho's on pointand readyto assist.
David Peace - The Damned Utd
He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.
Pat Conroy - South of Broad
I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -
The net is not a net until it begins to work. Work your network today!
Dave Rudbarg -
One of the reasons the team on NCIS works so well-is that they live by their leader's rules-which are not a secret .What are your rules/standards? Do the people in your life know what they are? Do you hold grudges/resentments when they don't measure up? Do you pretend that everything is fine-when it's not-and close up a little every day?And most importantly-When was the last time YOU reviewed/upgraded your standards/expectations rules-and took a look at the impact around you/checked in?(Hint-mos
Johnnie Dent Jr. -
Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.
Gisele Bundchen -
I've always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.
Igor Sikorsky -
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Bill Walton -
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
Victoria Osteen -
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
C.J. Langenhoven -
Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.
David Halberstam - The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
Kare Anderson - Meaningful and Satisfying Life With Others
To boost bonding among others so they are more apt to work (or play) well together, ask them, when together, to do two powerfully simple things that can be done rather quickly:1. Write down the ways they are like each other. Hint: Create a level playing field. Writing rather than immediately sharing helps slow thinkers keep up with fast thinkers. Fast thinkers aren't smarter, just different in their thinking processes, and each kind has advantages and pitfalls, so they can accomplish more togeth
Simon Mainwaring -
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
Russel Honore -
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
Bear Grylls -
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
Patrick Lencioni -
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
John C. Maxwell -
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Carl Lewis -
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
Mo Rocca -
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Emma Stone -
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
Linda Ronstadt -
In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
Naveen Jain -
As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
Gregg Sulkin -
I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.
Charbel Tadros -
A leader, without wisdom, is dangerous. A wise person, without leadership, is useless. But if they work together, they are unstoppable.
Janna Cachola -
Yesterday was just the tip of the iceberg of awesomeness. Things will get better. Keep smiling, don't give up just yet. Perseverance has an amazing gift for you, just wait you see.