Cooperation Teamwork Quotes - Page 2

• Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Teamwork, Competition, Collaboration

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• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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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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• If you can laugh together, you can work together.

  Robert Orben

  Teamwork, Inspiration, Laughing

  Robert Orben (2000). “Speaker's Handbook of Humor”, Merriam Webster

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
  People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
  Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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• Many hands make light work.

  John Heywood

  Change, Teamwork, Hands

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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• Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leadership, Teamwork, Mistake

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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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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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Teamwork, Time, Jobs

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• It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

  Ralph Charell

  Success, Teamwork, Competition

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• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Teamwork, Business, Independent

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Teamwork, Collaboration

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

  Chris Bradford

  Teamwork, Strong, Team Building

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3): The Way of the Dragon”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teamwork, Peace, Team Building

  To John Hancock, at the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776

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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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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Light is the task where many share the toil.

  Homer

  Teamwork, Light, Team Building

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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• Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Teamwork, Player

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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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• 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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• When somebody shares, everybody wins.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Winning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 24, 2017

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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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