Teamwork Quotes

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see. ~ Bill T. Jones

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists. ~ Wayne Gretzky

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It's virtually an axiom that teamwork across divisions of a ministry or police force is complicated by rivalries, turf battles, and competing personal and institutional interests. ~ Moises Naim

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. ~ Barack Obama

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects. ~ Clay Buchholz

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior. ~ Benjamin Spock

A pack is greater than a wolf. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To achieve results. This is the only true measure of a team P.42 ~ Patrick Lencioni

What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else? ~ Laszlo Bock

Rewards should go to teams as a whole. ~ Tom Peters

Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization. ~ Robert Bales

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back. ~ Michael Schumacher

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team. ~ Clay Buchholz

I am convinced more than ever that good communication and leadership are all about connecting. If you can connect with others at every level -one-on-one, in groups, and with an audience-your relationships are stronger, your sense of community improves, your ability to create teamwork increases, your influence increases, and your productivity skyrockets. ~ John C. Maxwell

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. ~ Bear Grylls

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost. ~ Pat Summitt

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. ~ Summer Glau

We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done. ~ Jeramey Kraatz

Time is done for one.
I want double trouble, or more. ~ -Himayath Nuzraan

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

I want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free. ~ Jay Woodman

The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible ( ... ) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals. ~ Isaac Asimov

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. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals. ~ Gichin Funakoshi

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential. ~ Bob Ainsworth

You don't see the world as it is, you see it,as you are. ~ Krishna Saagar

A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members. ~ Meredith Belbin

With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

Unity is strength ... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. ~ Mattie J.T. Stepanek

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. ~ Anais Nin

A perfect couple shares their failures, mistakes and their successes equally and deal with them all as a team. ~ Ricardo Derose

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork. ~ Atul Gawande

But sometimes it's the smallest things that end up making the biggest difference." Indy reached out and clasped Peter's arm. "And you're not alone. No matter what happens, Peter, we so this together. And we do this for Story. ~ Marissa Burt

Neighbor to neighbor. It is a mentality that has been fostered over centuries, since the earliest settlers realized the only way to survive in this desolate but beautiful outpost was to work together. Much of their music captures this spirit. ~ Jim DeFede

Great teamwork, great results. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Neil worried for a moment what they'd do with Andrew's rude brand of teamwork at their backs, but the next time he got a good look at Matt, Matt was grinning like this was the most fun he'd had in years. It ~ Nora Sakavic

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms. ~ Nikki Sixx

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard. ~ Chris Bent

I realized what tremendous teamwork it took to pull this off. I originally had nine and a half pages. This is the condensed version. So, anyone I may have inadvertently omitted in this draft, please email me and I'll send you the longer edition. (Trust me. Your name is definitely on that one. As is the name of every resident in the entire state of Wisconsin.) ~ Marilyn Brant

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. ~ Andrew Carnegie

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary. ~ Henry Ford

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong. ~ Georges Wolinski

Let us work together for unity and love. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Little things make the big things happen ~ John Wooden

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. ~ Jean-Francois Cope

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. ~ Linda Ronstadt

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone. ~ Jim Brown

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. ~ Timothy Gallwey

It takes two flints to make a fire. ~ Louisa May Alcott

A job interview is a two-way communication to probe for cultural and team fit. No matter which side of the table you sit, you should be asking questions that are important to you without fear. ~ Salil Jha

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ~ Fred Allen

It should never be ME against the world but WE against the world. ~ Janna Cachola

The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation. ~ Walter Isaacson

I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization. ~ Vince Lombardi

You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer. ~ Matt Bahr

The best part about teamwork, is me collecting all the prize money. Hey, that's what captains are for, right? ~ Jarod Kintz

Individuals score points, but teams win games. This is true in athletic events and in life. If you make it in life, your "team" of parents, teachers, ministers, etc., will have played a major role in your success. ~ Zig Ziglar

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. ~ Simon Mainwaring

Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight. ~ Pearl Zhu

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won. ~ Sara Sheridan

No one man is superior to the game. ~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Place the team above yourself always. ~ John Wooden

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate ... T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. ~ Walt Disney

Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder. ~ Janna Cachola

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. ~ Babe Ruth

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. ~ Patrick Lencioni

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats. ~ Simon Sinek

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. ~ Phil Jackson

You must have discipline to have fun. ~ Julia Child

Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream. ~ Vinita Kinra

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth. ~ Dennis F. Kinlaw

People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs ~ John Adair

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ~ Michael Jordan

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding. ~ Ted Koppel

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. ~ Gregg Sulkin

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. ~ Coretta Scott King

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards. ~ Pat Riley

Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group. ~ Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~ Andrew Carnegie

What makes the teamwork effective is Cooperation which makes the team 'WORKS'. ~ Russell Van Garcia

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. ~ Emma Stone

We as leaders are responsible for changes in our workplace, communities and homes beyond ourselves. We shouldn't just look at the bigger picture, as leaders we should also CREATE the bigger picture. ~ Janna Cachola

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. ~ James Cash Penney

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement. ~ John C. Maxwell

Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression. ~ Ahmed Yassin

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron. ~ Giordano Bruno

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. ~ Vince Lombardi

I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the ... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible. ~ Chris Carter

Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand.
"Nice teamwork," Edward murmured. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist. ~ Kwame Alexander

Building a team is hard ~ Patrick Lencioni

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other. ~ Sam Walton

Cultivate those who can teach you. ~ Baltasar Gracian

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league. ~ Kurt Russell