Working effectively as a team creates momentum, improves morale, wins contests, and can even save lives. Here are 42 quotes on teams and teamwork:
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” -Michael Jordan
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” -Lee Iacocca
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” -Henry Ford
“Teamwork makes the dream work.” -Bang Gae
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” -Helen Keller
“The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” Phil Jackson
“A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” Bill Bethel
“Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” -Ted Sundquist
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” -Ken Blanchard
“No individual can win a game by himself.” -Pele
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” -HE Luccock
“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” -Ifeanyi Onuoha
“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” -Lewis B Ergen
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi
“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” -Bahaullah
“We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” -Ben Franklin
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” -Napoleon Hill
“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” – Patrick Lencioni
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” -Norman Shidle
“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
“People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.” -Dr. Allan Fromme
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.” -Andrew Carnegie
“Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” -Justin Sewell
“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” -Stephen Covey
“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” Margaret Carty
“There is no ‘I’ in team but there is in win.” -Michael Jordan
“Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.” Max McKeown
“A leader must inspire or his team will expire.” -Orrin Woodward
“Bad attitudes will ruin your team.” -Terry Bradshaw
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” -John Wooden
“Teams share the burden and divide the grief.” -Doug Smith
“Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.” -Bruce Coslet
“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” -Lou Holtz
“With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.” -Tahir Shah
“Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.” -Tom Wilson
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” -Ryunosuke Satoro
“We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.” -Bill Bradley
“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” -Kenyan Proverb
“When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.” -Tibetan Proverb
“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” -Ethiopian Proverb
“A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” -Japanese Proverb
A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way. Swahili Proverb
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