Teamwork Quotes and Sayings
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
There is no “I” in “TEAMWORK”.
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
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.
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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
Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Teamwork is working together — even when apart.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
A job worth doing is worth doing together.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Coming together, sharing together, working together, succeeding together.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
A successful team beats with one heart.
Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.
Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Teamwork doesn’t tolerate the inconvenience of distance.
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
Many hands make light work.
John Heywood
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
Vince Lombardi
One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.
Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Bruce Coslet
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden
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…
Vince Lombardi
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
Conflict is inevitable in a team … in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.
Susan Gerke
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
We must all hang together,
or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Team means Together Everyone Achieves More!
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Lewis B. Ergen
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Stephen Covey
Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder… Teamwork can be summed up in five short words: “We believe in each other.”
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 individuals persons.
Max DePree
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
R. Meredith Belbin
Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an “I” in “team.” It is the same “I” that appears three times in “responsibility.”
Amber Harding
The path to greatness is along with others.
Baltasar Gracion
We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
Doug Smith
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Meade
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
Tom Bouchard
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
The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team.
Coach Phil Jackson Chicago Bulls
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.
Norman Shidle
Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.
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 F. Bales
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Lewis B. Ergen
Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
Dennis Kinlaw
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
Bill Bradley
Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make you a team
Buchholz & Roth
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 am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jason Kidd upon being drafted to the Dallas Mavericks
We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
Buchholz & Roth
In union there is strength.
Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ‘em to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Alexander the Great
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.
Katzenbach & Smith
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.
Marvin Weisbord
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.
Norman Shidle
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid — and that stops teamwork.
Will Schutz
Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ‘em to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel
A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.
It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.
Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
Mark Twain
Sure there’s no “I” in “team,” but there is a “ME”!
Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.
Ned Lautenbach
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno
A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.
Max DePree
The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
Katzenbach & Smith
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 Kinlaw
Working together works.
Dr. Rob Gilbert
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
Teams are not ends in themselves; they are a means by which to achieve other organizational goals.
Richard Wellins, William Byham, Jeanne Wilson
Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.
Sandra Richardson
Men have never been individually self-sufficient.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Most teams aren’t teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
Douglas McGregor
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
Katzenbach & Smith
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity… to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
Paul McCartney
We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
Lou Holtz
In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first-ahead of personal glory.
Paul Bear Bryant
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
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 represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
Katzenbach & Smith
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.
Robert Yates
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty
The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
A Harvey Block
Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team’s purpose and performance aspirations.
Katzenbach & Smith
Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
You put together the best team that you can with the players you’ve got, and replace those who aren’t good enough.
Robert Crandall
No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
B. Dodge
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
Dr. Allan Fromme
Win together, lose together, play together, stay together.
Debra Mancuso
Real teams don’t emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.
Katzenbach & Smith
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
Vince Lombardi