Teamwork Quotes

"Every once in a while you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off."

- Tony La Russa

"Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right."

- Adam Grant

"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

"When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing."

- Bo Schembechler

"You are either supporting the vision or supporting division."

- Saji Ijiyemi

"Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- H.E. Luccock

"The whole is other than the sum of the parts."

- Kurt Koffka

"None of us can achieve our full potential alone, and we will all ultimately go further with the help of others."

- Margaret Mead

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"None of us is as smart as all of us. Trust in collective intelligence leads to triumph."

- Ken Blanchard

"The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

- A.G. Lafley

"The best team is not the team with the best players, but the team that plays best together."

- Jamie Dimon

"Working with others is, in my mind, the future of business. You have a larger audience, more ideas, shared risk, shared workload and you will be getting a portion of something greater than had you done it alone."

- Seth Nichol

"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."

- Peter Drucker

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one that they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades."

- Simon Mainwaring

"The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other."

- Thomas Stallkamp

"The best teamwork comes from those who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration."

- Simon Mainwaring

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

- Golda Meir

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

- James Humes

"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."

- Tony Robbins

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

- Jim Rohn

"The strength of a team can often be the deciding factor between success and failure."

"Trust is the adhesive that binds a team together; without it, even the simplest tasks become difficult."

- Anonymous

"When a team trusts each other, success is a natural byproduct."

- Anonymous