Great Team Building Quotes

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

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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 speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.100, Bantam

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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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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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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

Lee Iacocca

Teamwork, People, Team Building

Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.61, Bantam

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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

Teamwork, People, Effort

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.57, Mango Media Inc.

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It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Teamwork, People, Team Building

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No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Halford Luccock

Life, Teamwork, Science

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None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

Mother Teresa

Teamwork, Together We Can, Great Love

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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

Motivational, Teamwork, Teacher

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Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

Dean Smith

Teamwork, Sports, Play

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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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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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The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

Rensis Likert

Loyalty, Teamwork, Motivation

Rensis Likert (1967). “The human organization: its management and value”, McGraw Hill

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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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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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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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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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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Tom Peters

Leadership, Teamwork, Kids

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Babe Ruth

Teamwork, Business, Play

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

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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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One man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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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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