Teamwork Quotes

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.

I don't consider myself as the best player in the world. I'm not obsessed with individual titles. I'm much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies.

The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.

It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.Perfect love cannot be without equality.A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.We are all alike, on the inside.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

A small team of (A plus) players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.

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

In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

Unity increases power.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

Basketball isn't just about the bright lights, packed arenas and highlight reels. Basketball is a way of life. Basketball is a relationship between you and the ball, you and your teammates. If you love the game, nobody can take that from you.

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.

Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.

I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.

None of us are as creative as all of us.