Team Building Quotes - Page 6

• No man is wise enough by himself.

  Plautus

  Wise, Teamwork, Wisdom

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Miles Gloriosus, III. 3. 12, 1922.

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• Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Teamwork, Sports

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

  Meredith Belbin

  Teamwork, Mind, Working Together

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• Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Emotional, Differences

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• Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

  Mark Twain

  Teamwork, Achievement, Working Together

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• Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

  Peter Drucker

  Teamwork, Effectiveness, Done

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.44, Routledge

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• Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

  Ted Sundquist

  Motivational, Teamwork, Block

  Ted Sundquist, Justin Spizman (2013). “Taking Your Team to the Top: How to Build and Manage Great Teams Like the Pros”, p.7, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

  Bruce Coslet

  Teamwork, Team Work, Inspirational Team

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• Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, Opportunity, Reality

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work”, p.17, Thomas Nelson

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• Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Player, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.112, Crown Business

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• Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.

  John Wooden

  Team, Working Very Hard, Opponents

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• Chemistry is a contribution that teammates make to each other, but it's also something a coach can create or facilitate.

  Tony DiCicco

  Team, Chemistry, Building

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.57, Penguin

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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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• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Light is the task where many share the toil.

  Homer

  Teamwork, Light, Toil

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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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• Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

  Bill Gates

  Imagination, Teammate, Microsoft

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• Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

  Max McKeown

  Teamwork, Sports, Teammate

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• Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Teamwork, Destiny, Ideas

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• Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Teamwork, Practice, Skills

  Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.50, ASCD

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• Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Teamwork, Strong, Educational

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• Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

  Robert Bales

  Teamwork, Jobs, Organization

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• Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

  Max De Pree

  Teamwork, Real, Team Work

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

  George Halas

  Team, Nfl, Want

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