Teamwork Quotes

"There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Everyone you work with, in order to achieve a goal, must have something to lose if it is not realised and something to gain if it is realised. These are the people that are going to stick around you through thick and thin until the job is done."

- Saidi Mdala

"Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence."

- Salil Jha

"A leaders job is to ELEVATE the team, not delegate the team. Elevate your team to take initiative because real leadership is when you can create a culture of self-leadership within your team."

- Janna Cachola

"Each of us must make it our priority and personal responsibility to stay in harmony with our fellowman. Harmony is not just about creating a pleasant environment; it produces synergy. The best way to explain synergy is to say that a hand is much more effective than five fingers working independently."

- Deborah Smith Pegues

"When you switch your focus from the “we” to the “me”, the goal from “team” to “self”, you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success."

- Carlos Wallace

"Telling your team what to do is showmanship. Showing people how to do it is leadership."

- Janna Cachola

"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."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental."

- Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.

"Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project."

- Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.

"THINK, UNITE, ACT"

- Children of the World 2000

"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."

- Andrew Carnegie

"What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division."

- Barack Obama

"There’s nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back."

- Billy Martin

"Ignore the people who tell you it won’t work and hire people who embrace your vision."

- Michael Dell

"Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning."

- Bill Gates

"I think team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed."

- LeBron James

"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

"I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else."

- Lionel Messi

"Two heads are definitely better than one, and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge."

- Richard Branson

"Don’t be afraid of saying goodbye to wrong-fit team members—design the team you want."

- Shannon Waller

"The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together, can do extraordinary things."

- Barack Obama

"In union, there is strength."

- Aesop

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but you want someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

"30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal."

- Jack Ma

"The easiest thing a team will ever do is lift the trophy, the hard part is everything before that part."

- Chris Bosch

"Teamwork is hard; the goal you are trying to achieve is challenging; that’s why you need a team."

- Tyler Waye

"Only through teamwork can an individual transcend and soar the limitations of his own personal limitations."