Teamwork quotes and team quotes that are inspirational and full of words of wisdom. Enjoy these inspirational quotes on teamwork and may they inspire and motivate the team you are a part of.
"Teamwork 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."
Vince Lombardi
"Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership."
Author Unknown
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success."
Henry Ford
"The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team."
Lewis B. Ergen
"There is no I in TEAMWORK."
Author Unknown
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
Michael Jordan
"None of us is as smart as all of us."
Ken Blanchard
"No one can whistle a symphony.
It takes an orchestra to play it."
H.E. Luccock
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
Napoleon Hill
"Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer." Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith, from The Wisdom of Teams
"I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down." Mia Hamm
"I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game." Tom Landry
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"What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another." Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith, from The Wisdom of Teams
"The strength of the team is each individual member... the strength of each member is the team." Coach Phil Jackson
"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've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team." Lee Iacocca
"To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." Steve Prefontaine
"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." Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith, from The Wisdom of Teams
"Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out – with the spiritual help of a gifted leader – how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time." Tom Peters
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously." Mark Twain
"We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." Althea Gibson
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." Henry Ford
"No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything." B. Dodge
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
"Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?" R. Meredith Belbin
"A team based environment demands that you make responsible decisions;
it requires you to take charge of your career. It requires you to develop excellent interpersonal skills because you have to interact at a much different level with your team members. No longer is it just you and your job!" Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Work
"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates." Magic Johnson
"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
"Teamwork meas that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals." Byron Pulsifer, from Major Human Capacities
"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." Max DePree
"Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can lift things a little higher, a little farther, towards excellence." Author Unknown
"In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results." Price Pritchett
"Empowered teams provide organzations with a capacity to leverage people as a competitive advantage. Russell D. Robinson
"Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust." Dennis Kinlaw