Team Building Quotes

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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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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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Teamwork, Important

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Joe Paterno

  Teamwork, Confidence, Reality

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

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Powerful, Technology

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Team, People

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• Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Skills, Long

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• Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Ideas, People

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• It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Jobs, People, Development

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• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

  Edward Abbey

  Teamwork, Stupid, Real

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey, (p. 313), 1975.

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  If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Running, Team, Simple

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teamwork, Peace, Unity

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

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• Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Strong, Team, Simple

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• Protecting underperformers always backfires.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Building, Backfire

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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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• 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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• 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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