Teamwork Quotes

Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.

You can't do it all yourself. Don't be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals.

None of us is smarter than all of us.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had.

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

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.

Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.

Working together is success.

I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.

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

When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

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

To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

The best players in the game want the responsibility of being the best player. The reality is the game has changed from now back to '87. It's a lot tighter checking. The players are better today. So, that makes it harder for him just in that fact. We can't rely solely on Mario [Lemieux] to carry this team. We're not relying on that.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Five heads are definitely better than one when they're thinking in the same perspective. I think that you really need to have people that you trust. And for me, trust comes from that synchronizing, that same-mindedness.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.