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Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.
Sep 29, 2025
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Earn your leadership every day.
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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.
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.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
One man cannot make a team.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
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.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
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.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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