Teamwork Quotes

"I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down." Mia Hamm

"I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game." Tom Landry

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"What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another." Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith, from The Wisdom of Teams

"The strength of the team is each individual member... the strength of each member is the team." Coach Phil Jackson

"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

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team." Lee Iacocca

"To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." Steve Prefontaine

"Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders." Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith, from The Wisdom of Teams

"Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out – with the spiritual help of a gifted leader – how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time." Tom Peters

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

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

"We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." Althea Gibson

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

"No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything." B. Dodge

"If I could solve all the problems myself, I would."
Thomas Edison replied when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants.

"Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?" R. Meredith Belbin

"A team based environment demands that you make responsible decisions;
it requires you to take charge of your career. It requires you to develop excellent interpersonal skills because you have to interact at a much different level with your team members. No longer is it just you and your job!" Catherine Pulsifer, Wings for Work

"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates." Magic Johnson

"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

"Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals." Byron Pulsifer, from Major Human Capacities

"The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons." Max DePree

"Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can lift things a little higher, a little farther, towards excellence." Author Unknown

"In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results." Price Pritchett, The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits

"Empowered teams provide organzations with a capacity to leverage people as a competitive advantage. Russell D. Robinson, The Empowerment Cookbook

"Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust." Dennis Kinlaw

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

"A real leader or supervisor's success is not solely measured on their personal ability, but is better measured by the success of the team they lead. This success is based both on the personal and professional growth of the team and the ability to provide the services for which both the team and its clients prosper." R. Scott Smith, from A Collection of Emails

"A good coach will hold the team accountable for both their actions and their results."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from People's Expectations of a Coach

"Working together works." Dr. Rob Gilbert

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit." Robert Yates

"Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we." Author Unknown

"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

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." Andrew Carnegie

"Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you." Kris A Hiatt

"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them." Dr. Allan Fromme

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side." Margaret Carty

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

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." Kareem Abul-Jabbar

" If your company has a mission or vision statement, then talk about what this statement means in relation to the bigger picture and in relation to the teams' role. Again, if there is no mission or vision statement then develop a team statement."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from More Challenges

"You are still accountable for the performance of the team, yet you no longer controlevery aspect of the team. Instead, you coach the team to meet performance expectations."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from More Benefits To Being A Coach

"Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!!" Tom Wilson

"Compromising when it is best for the welfare of others shows the capacity for teamwork."
Steve Brunkhorst

"When you stop and think about a team based environment, it is perhaps the best structure we could ask for."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Teams

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