Team Quotes - Page 3

• Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

  Meredith Belbin

  Teamwork, Mind, Team Building

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• A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

  Pele

  Player, Thinking, People

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

  Allan Fromme

  Teamwork, Hockey, People

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• The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.

  Max De Pree

  Teamwork, Art, Keys

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• Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

  Robert Griffin III

  Sports, Football, Differences

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• It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

  Casey Stengel

  Teamwork, Player, Team Building

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• The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Men

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• The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

  Pat Summitt

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Truth

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.48, Crown Business

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• All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

  Alexis Carrel

  Teamwork, Helping Others, People

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Teamwork, Common Vision, Individual Effort

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• Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Years, Play

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• I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

  Paul McCartney

  Teamwork, Real, Optimistic

  "John Rutter: The Art Of The Christmas Carol". Interview with Andrea Seabrook, www.npr.org. December 20, 2008.

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• Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

  Bill Gates

  Focus, Unity, Purpose

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• Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

  Brian Tracy

  Teamwork, Money, Business

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• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

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

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Success, Teamwork, Sports

  Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Organization

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• The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Race, Together, Lost

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

  Patrick Lencioni

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Teamwork, Team Work, Collaboration

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