Teamwork Quotes

"We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."

- Bill Bradley

"Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team."

- Buchholz and Roth

"Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part."

- Casey Stengel

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

- Charles Darwin

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

- Doug Floyd

"Teams share the burden and divide the grief."

- Doug Smith

"Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice."

- Douglas B. Reeves

"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

- Dr. Allan Fromme

"It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."

- Edward Abbey

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it."

- H.E. Luccock

"Light is the task where many share the toil."

- Homer

"One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites."

- Jin Kwon

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."

- Joe Paterno

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

- John Cleese

"I hope someday you will join us/ And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

"To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another."

- John C. Maxwell

"Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you."

- Kris A Hiatt

"The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team."

- Lewis B. Ergen

"The greatest danger a team faces isn't that it won't become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve."

- Mark Sanborn

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough."

- Robert Crandall

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit."

- Robert Yates

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything."

- Tahir Shah

"The main reason why great leaders are rare is because books on leadership far outsell those on followership."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"The more we are able to engage in enthusiastic disagreement with each other, the more we will be able to uncover the best in ourselves and each other."

- Karen Kimsey-House