Teamwork Quotes

"A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Swahili proverb

"Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?"

- Adam Grant

"Teams aren’t always the happiest groups; they don’t always make life easier, but when push comes to shove, a good team trusts each other."

- Tyler Waye

"Humans have an innate need to belong- teamwork reinforces belonging."

- Baumeister and Leary

"I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes, I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win."

- LeBron James

"If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Phil Jackson

"Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors."

- Elon Musk

"Meetings should be like salt – a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation."

- Jason Fried

"Build structures to stick together, build trust even when you don’t think it matters, and foster leadership that will push you from a plateau to the peak."

- Tyler Waye

"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as is giving people that power."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties."

- Natalie Massenet

"To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula."

- Richard Branson

"Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."

- John C. Maxwell

"The world needs leadership, but the leadership is about working together."

- Jack Ma

"Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason."

- LeBron James

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

- Steve Jobs

"Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea."

- Jack Dorsey

"It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction."

- Warren Buffett

"We’re all working together, that’s the secret."

- Sam Walton

"If you’re building a company, you’ve got to gather great people. I mean, all a company is is a group of people that have gathered together to create a product or service."

- Elon Musk

"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."

- Thomas Sowell

"Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful."

- Jeff Bezos

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society."

- Vince Lombardi

"The motivation of almost 90,000 individuals working towards a single objective."

- Amancio Ortega

"You cannot train alone and expect to run a fast time. There is a formula: 100% of me is nothing compared to 1% of the whole team. And that’s teamwork. That’s what I value."

- Eliud Kipchoge

"Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom."

- Warren Buffett

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

"We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other."

- Vala Afshar

"The strength of one’s resolve can carry one across great distances, but nothing stands in the path of collective will."