Inspirational Teamwork Quotes

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

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.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

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.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

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 individual persons.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.

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

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

The path to greatness is along with others.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

A successful team beats with one heart.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Many hands make light work.

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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.