- Teamwork Definitions Quotes Part 1
- Power of Teamwork Quotes Part 2
- Inspiring Quotes Part 3
- Leadership and Teamwork Quotes Part 4
- Team Collaboration Quotes Part 5
- Importance of a Good Team Quotes Part 6
Part 1
Teamwork Definitions Quotes
Andrew Carnegie
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.
Patrick Lencioni
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
Simon Sinek
A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.
Vince Lencioni
Individual commitment to a group effort – that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Patrick Lencioni
Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Ned Lautenbach
Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.
Justin Sewell
Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Hiriyappa B
Teamwork is the results of groups have working together to effectively and efficiently achieving organizational tasks and vision and mission.
Byron Pulsifer
Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals.
Dennis Kinlaw
Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
Kris A. Hiatt
Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.
James Cash Penney
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
Marvin Weisbord
Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.
Israelmore Ayivor
Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.
Pat Summitt
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
Pat Riley
Teamwork requires that everyone’s efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team’s energy takes on a life of its own.
Pat Summitt
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
Tom Bouchard
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
Katzenbach & Smith
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.
Diane Arias
Team spirit is knowing and living the belief that what a group of people can accomplish together is much larger, far greater, and will exceed that which an individual can accomplish alone.
Part 2
Power of Teamwork Quotes
Michael Jordan
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Mia Hamm
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.
Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Bang Gae
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Ken Blanchard
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Tom Wilson
Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.
Ryunosuke Satoro
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ty Howard
A “just a job” employee does just enough to keep their job while complaining about what’s not fair or right at work. A “team player” works positively together with everyone to get the job done the best way possible. See the difference?
Abraham Lincoln
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Chris Bradford
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable
John Heywood
Many hands make light work.
Baltasar Gracion
The path to greatness is along with others.
Kurt Koffka
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Bahá’u’lláh
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Chuck Page
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Anonymous
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.
Michael Welton
Without teamwork, there is no way that the company is going to experience success. In teams, individuals will work together and accomplish a lot more that what they do by themselves.
Steven E Dunlop
In business, nothing great can be done by one person alone (typically) but, with a team, great things can happen.
Unknown Author
Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can lift things a little higher, a little farther, towards excellence.
Unknown Author
On our own, we are marshmallows and dried spaghetti, but together we can become something bigger.
B. Dodge
No problem is insurmountable.With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
Louisa May Alcott
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Mark Twain
Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
Midrash
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
Ted Kennedy
What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
Emily Kimbrough
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
James Cash Penney
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Jason Pierre-Paul
Nobody can defeat you when you all are working together.
Jacqueline Novogratz
A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
John Bardeen
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
Jonathan Ive
Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.
Jamais Cascio
Nobody’s going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
Part 3
Inspiring Teamwork Quotes
Steve Jobs
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Mother Teresa
I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.
Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Ifeanyi Onuoha
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.
Stephen Covey
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Margaret Carty
The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Robert Orben
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Pat Riley
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Joe Paterno
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Rensis Likert
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
Amber Harding
Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an “I” in “team.” It is the
same “I” that appears three times in “responsibility.”
John C. Maxwell
Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.
Dave Mueller
Lead by example, insist on teamwork and instill motivation. Self-discipline is what gets you to work every day, and hard work builds character.
Dr. Rob Gilbert
Working together works.
John Katzenbach
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
John Lennon/Yoko Ono
A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream. A Dream You Dream Together Is Reality.
Sam Walton
We’re all working together; that’s the secret.
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
Ted Turner
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Helen Rowland
You will never win if you never begin.
Doug Conant
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
Steve Jobs
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Napolean Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Steve Jobs
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Alistair Cook
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Denis Waitley
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Part 4
Leadership and Teamwork Quotes
John Maxwell
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Craig Groeshcel
If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders.
Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Henry Drummond
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Orrin Woodward
A leader must inspire or his team will expire.
Zig Ziglar
You don’t build a business, you build people and then people build the business.
Peter F. Drucker
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we‘; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we‘ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Author Unknown
Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.
Brian Cagneey
People learn by what they see, not what they are told. Make sure whatever you are infecting your team with will be positive and push them forward.
Douglas Smith; Jon Katzenbach
Moreover, in high-performance teams, the role of the team leader is less important and more difficult to identify because all members lead the team at different times.
Jay Samit
The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
Hans F. Hansen
People inspire you or they drain you – pick them wisely.
Jack Ma
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
Part 5
Team Collaboration Quotes
Rich Willis
Whenever ideas are shared, the result is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Stephen Covey
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Norman Shidle
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.
Douglas B. Reeves
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
Mattie Stepanek
Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Pharrell
Collaborate with people you can learn from.
Napoleon Hill
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
African Proverb
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
George Shinn
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
Reid Hoffman
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Doug Smith
Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
Vince Lombardi
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Dr. Allan Fromme
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
Virginia Burden
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Isaac Newton
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are done by a series of small things that are brought together.
Rick Warren
There are no perfect people who can say to the world, ‘I don’t need anybody else.’ We need each other. We were made to work in teams!
Maggie White
Sometimes being on a team means being humble and putting others first. It has to be about the team and not the individual.
S. Kumar
Yes, a true team player can reach 90 to 95 percent of their potential just by actively associating with a team. By shifting from the self-centered attitude to focusing on others led to tripling my accomplishments.
Mark L. Knapp
And, as the complexity of these problems increases, the consequences of ineffective solutions correspondingly increases. Thus, an understanding of teamwork is a fundamental step in assuring our future survival.
Gene King
Trust your team. Let others do their work so that you may concentrate wholly on doing your own.
Andrew Carnegie
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Lisa Broesch-Weeks
And when members of a team have high-quality connections, they may also feel more safety and trust, resulting in greater cooperation and coordination.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Ally Carte
Either we’re a team or we aren’t. Either you trust me or you don’t.
Lee Lacocca
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.
John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Thomas Hood
When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
Franklin Roosevelt
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point but no further; cooperation is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
A. A. Milne
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Halford Edward Luccock
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
Sir Alex Ferguson
The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
Lance Edward Armstrong
Anyone who imagines he can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions.The fact is no one ascends alone.
Askhari Johnson Hodari
If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.
Ethiopian Proverb
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Latin Proverb
Three, helping one another, bear the burden of six.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Homer
Light is the task where many share the toil.
Mike Krzyzewski
Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication.
Steven Rosenthal
The word team involves the roles and relationships between people working together. It involves dealing with their work and involves teaching them how to deal with conflict when it occurs.
Bruce Coslet
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.
Plautus
No man is wise enough by himself.
Helen Keller
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
Denis Waitley
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Paul Zane Pilzeer
You only win when you help others win.
Swahili Proverb
A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.
Lewis B. Ergen
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
William B. Given Jr.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Mother Teresa
None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Stephen Covey
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Robert H. Waterman
Organizations exist only for one purpose: to help people reach ends together that they couldn’t achieve individually.
Harriet Woods
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Charles Darwin
In the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Alexis Carrel
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.
John C. Maxwell
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
Paul Ryan
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Bill Richardson
We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.
Maggie Hassan
Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.
Queen Elizabeth II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Theresa May
It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.
Patrick Lencioni
Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren’t divisions of labor. Don’t have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
Jacque Fresco
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.
Part 6
Importance of a Good Team Quotes
Daniel Boulud
To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.
Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
Simon Sinek
It’s better to have a great team, than a team of greats.
Lee Iacocca
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Phil Jackson
The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.
Bill Bethel
A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.
Phil Jackson
Good teams becomes great ones, when the members trust each other enough to surrender the “me” for the “we“.
Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.
A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
Jason Fried
There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
Robert Schumann
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Ted Sundquist
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.
Ed Catmull
Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than the right idea.
Bud Wilkinson
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate
his personal goals to the good of the team.
Allan Jones
Building teams is a process just like building a house. When building a house, you must first build a strong foundation before putting the walls and roof up.
Doug Loewe
The system will fail if the team is made up of people who need constant prodding to get the work done.
Joe Allen and David Donaldson
Successful people must know that those he or she chooses to be on his or her team must share her vision. They must all be able to work toward a common purpose.
Rupert Johnson
Success stories, whether by individuals or organizations, are almost always the result of collaborative effort among many people who are united by a single goal and vision.
Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith
What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.
John C. Maxwell
The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement. The question isn’t whether teams have value. The question is whether we acknowledge that fact and become better team players.
Lee Iacocca
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.
Babe Ruth
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.
Henry J. Evans
Successful teams cannot exist without accountability – high performance and accountability go hand-in-hand.
George B. Bradt; Jayme A. Check; John A. Lawler
High-performing teams and organizations are built of people, plans, and practices aligned around a shared purpose.
Doug Floyd
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Jose B. Cabajar
There is no such thing as one-man show in a winning team.
Patanjali
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
Pat Riley
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
Russell D. Robinson
Empowered teams provide organizations with a capacity to leverage people as a competitive advantage.
Patrick Lencioni
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.
Sonia Johnson
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Gary David Goldberg
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity – the team – the show – which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.
Henry Mitzberg
Companies are communities. There’s a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.