Team Leadership Quotes

Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team. ~ George Takei

Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future. ~ Vishwas Chavan

One of the primary mistakes that leaders today make, when called to lead, is spending most of their time and energy trying to improve things at the organizational level before ensuring that they have adequately addressed their own credibility at individual, one-on-one, or team leadership levels. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team. ~ Steve Ballmer

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team. ~ Orrin Woodward

Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success. ~ Gene Morton

If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team. ~ David Cottrell

Self-leadership always precedes team leadership. ~ Michael Hyatt

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team. ~ Frederick W. Smith

I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me. ~ Jayne Middlemiss

The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

You do what you can to help your team win, whether it's playing that many minutes or 24 or whatever is asked of you, you do. You prepare yourself to play as much as you're asked to play. ~ Chris Pronger

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday. ~ Bear Bryant

There's nothing about Tony Romo that deserves to be associated with America's Team. ~ Stephen A. Smith

Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain. ~ Daniel Goleman

How about we play without special abilities?" she suggested. "That'll make it fair for everyone."

Fitz shrugged. "I'm up for the challenge if you are."

"Lame. I vote for The Unstoppable Team Keefe! Or Team Foster-Keefe if you're one of those egomaniacs who needs your name in there. I can share some credit. ~ Shannon Messenger

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are. ~ Margaret Thatcher

The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked. ~ David Gower

They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008. ~ Evander Holyfield

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for. ~ Deepak Chopra

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk. ~ James M. Kouzes

One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those that advocated legalizing marijuana and those that did not. The professor said he wanted to hear from a few people on both sides of the argument. A couple students had the opportunity to stand in front of the class and present their arguments. One student got up and spoke about how any kind of marijuana use was morally wrong and how nobody in the class could give him any example of someone who needed marijuana.
A small girl in the back of the classroom raised her hand and said that she didn't want to get up, but just wanted to comment that there are SOME situations in which people might need marijuana. The same boy from before spoke up and said that she needed to back up her statements and that he still stood by the fact that there wasn't anyone who truly needed marijuana.
The same girl in the back of the classroom slowly stood up. As she raised her head to look at the boy, I could physically see her calling on every drop of confidence in her body. She told us that her husband had cancer. She started to tear up, as she related how he couldn't take any of the painkillers to deal with the radiation and chemotherapy treatments. His body was allergic and would have violent reactions to them. She told us how he had finally given in and tried marijuana. Not only did it help him to feel better, but it allowed him to have enough of ~ Daniel Willey

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters. ~ Oliver Kahn

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value ~ John C. Maxwell

You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue. ~ Henry Samueli

I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now ... ~ Mark Millar

These four layers together form your own diversity filter. Let's take a look at each of them to see their impact on you and the team. ~ Lee Gardenswartz

They weren't drunk - they were just being loud. I was trying out for the football team and needed to get some sleep. One night I'd finally had enough and when Ted ran by my open window I reached out, grabbed him by the throat, and pulled him halfway into my room. I said, "Hey, what the hell's the matter with you? ~ Ted Turner

Waiting for perfect time and opportunity. It comes never - start now. ~ Amit Ray

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. ~ Bill Hybels

I came to see that no Christian leadership can grow from the demanding of rights. And ~ Mandy Smith

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people. ~ Joan D. Chittister

We email, teleconference, webinar, but we are not in the room with the people. It is a false connectedness - artificial team-building. It's like eating the menu instead of the food. ~ Linda Robinson

Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him. ~ Bill Walsh

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation. ~ Adam LiVecchi

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude. ~ John C. Maxwell

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. ~ Vince Cable

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ~ John D. Rockefeller

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders. ~ Donald Trump

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time. ~ Richard Gough

I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that. ~ Warren G. Bennis

Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. ~ David Foster Wallace

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. ~ Aeschylus

Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves ~ Brian Tracy

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team. ~ Ashley Wagner

In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices ... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader. ~ Peter Cosgrove

Sin will do a number on you. ~ Johnny Hunt

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy. ~ Peter Senge

But far too often when we face the failure of a business venture, we let that failure paralyze us from trying again. The failure could stem from a lack of financial planning, a lack of resources, or the lack of the right team members. But you have to realize that failure is part of the process when you are on the road to success. The only way to get back on track is to come up with another plan. I've failed more times than I can count. But you can't let the failure freeze you in place and stop you from pursuing your dreams. ~ Steve Harvey

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose ~ Jose Mourinho

One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help ~ Ken Follett

Earth life is giant field day where we willingly choose the limitation of racing with both feet in a potato sack, or sometimes we join up with another and agree to the limitation of racing as a team where each person has one leg tied to the leg of the other ... Agreeing to run a race with limitations or live a life with limitations doesn't mean you're slow, clumsy, or unenlightened. It just means you're showing up on field day, participating, and if you're really good, you try your best despite the obstacles. ~ Kaya McLaren

In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins. ~ Johnny Unitas

If people are coming to work excited ... if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly ... if they're having fun ... if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders. ~ Robert Townsend

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough