Teamwork Quotes

"To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost."

- Pat Summitt

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment."

- Tom Peters

"You can’t win together if you don’t work together."

- Joe Paterno

"No one is bigger than the team, you win together, and you can certainly lose together."

- Julie Ertz

"The beauty of football is that everyone can contribute in their own way, no matter how big or small their role may be."

- Neymar Jr.

"There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together."

- Lou Holtz

"“Alone we can do little; together we can do so much.”"

- Helen Keller

"There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."

- Indira Gandhi

"Help your pieces so they can help you."

- Paul Morphy

"I roll with some fiends, I love ‘em to death / I got a few mil’ but not all of them rich / What good is bread if my n**gas is broke? / What good is first class if my niggas can’t sit? / That’s my next mission, that’s why I can’t quit."

- J. Cole

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

"Don't ever compete against someone else, Simone. You don’t go out there to beat another person. You go out there to do your very best."

- Simone Biles

"A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong."

- Tecumseh

"You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context."

- José Mourinho

"To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace."

- Doug Conant

"Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than the right idea."

- Ed Catmull

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"If two men on the same job agree all the time, one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless."

- Darryl F. Zanuck

"Therefore, encourage and build one another up, just as you are doing."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

"Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated."

- Jim Collins

"First Who ... Then What. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats—and then they figured out where to drive it. The old adage “People are your most important asset” turns out to be wrong. People are not your most important asset. The right people are."

- James C. Collins

"Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. The management team"

- James C. Collins

"There are going to be times when we can’t wait for somebody. Now, you’re either on the bus or off the bus."

- James C. Collins

"The good-to-great companies built a consistent system with clear constraints, but they also gave people freedom and responsibility within the framework of that system."

- James C. Collins

"Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people."

- James C. Collins

"If you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away. The right people don’t need to be tightly managed or fired up; they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great."

- James C. Collins

"The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere."

- Mark Parker

"Don’t try to do everything by yourself, but try to connect with people and resources. Having that discipline and perseverance is really important."

- Chieu Cao

"It’s very important for entrepreneurs to look for people in the company who are not afraid of failures, for example, intrapreneurs. They make a business more successful by thinking like an entrepreneur -- but within a company."

- Chirag Kulkarni