Various Quotes on teams and team-building drawn from all over the web (source acknowledgements provided). Visit these sites for other quotes and to support the authors.
“A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” — Japanese proverb – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“It is amazing how much people get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.” — Swahili proverb – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.” — Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr. – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“No man is wise enough by himself.” — Plautus – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” — Stephen Covey – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” — Lewis B. Ergen – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbor – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.” — Peter Drucker – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Michael Jordan – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Anon. – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Teams share the burden and divide the grief.” — Doug Smith – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.” — Vince Lombardi – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“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 – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” — Mark Sanborn – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skill of the others.” — Norman S Hidle – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“The greatest danger a team faces isn’t that it won’t become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve.” — Mark Sanborn – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“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 – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“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. Edward Deming – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“It’s easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that’s the hard part.” — Casey Stengel – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“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 – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value.” — Anon. – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.” — Althea Gibson – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.” — Dennis Kinlaw – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Light is the task where many share the toil.” — Homer – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.” — Lee Iacocca – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“T.E.A.M = Together everyone achieves more.” — Anon. – “30 Top Team Building Quotes” – Leadership with You
“Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play.” — 0 – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” — Lewis B. Ergen – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“A championship team is a team of champions.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.” — Lee Iacocca – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“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. Edward Deming – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“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 – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!” — Bonnie Edelstein – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” — Swahili proverb – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make a team.” — Buchholz and Roth – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“If you don’t kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.” — John Wheeler – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” — Mark Sanborn – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” — Joe Paterno – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.” — Alexis Carrel – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“The greatest danger a team faces isn’t that it won’t become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve.” — Mark Sanborn – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” — Jason Kidd – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Teamwork doesn’t tolerate the inconvenience of distance.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“There is not I in Teamwork.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.” — H.E. Luccock – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” — Doug Floyd – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Wild ducks make a lot of noise, but they also have the sense to benefit from occasionally flying in formation.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Teamwork divides the task and double the success.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“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 – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.” — Anon. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.” — Petronii Arbitri Satyricon – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.” — William B. Given, Jr. – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“It’s easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that’s the hard part.” — Casey Stengel – “Team Building Quotes” – Wilderdom
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“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 – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.” — John C. Maxwell – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.” — Mike Krzyzewski – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.” — Tony Dungy – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win.” — Michael Jordan – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“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 – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.” — Lionel Messi – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.” — Theodore Roosevelt – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” — Frank Zappa – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.” — Russel Honore – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“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 – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“I’m busy working on every aspect of my game – defense, shooting, rebounding – but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.” — Kevin Durant – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity – the team – the show – which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.” — Gary David Goldberg – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” — John Wooden – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” — Mickey Mantle – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.” — Casey Stengel – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” — Lee Iacocca – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?” — Jim Bouton – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“You can’t just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.” — Mia Hamm – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual… and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.” — Wayne Gretzky – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.” — Benjamin Franklin Fairless – “Team Quotes” Brainyquote
“Either we’re a team or we aren’t. Either you trust me or you don’t.” — Ally Carter – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.” — Cassandra Clare – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“The team with the best players wins.” — Jack Welch – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“A team is a team.” — Jamal Lewis – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers.” — Anon. – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.” — John C. Maxwell – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“No matter the disappointment, you simply cannot divorce your favorite team.” — Kevin Walker – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“I am a member of the 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 – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“There is no “i” in team but there is in win.” — Michael Jordan – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.” — Orson Scott Card – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.” — Tahir Shah – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.” — Tahir Shah – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.” — Tahir Shah – “Team-Building Quotes” – Quotestree
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — H.E. Luccock – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.” — Anon. – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” — Margaret Carty – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Many hands make light work.” — John Heywood – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.” — Jin Kwon – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” — John Donne – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” — Virginia Burden – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” — Kenyan Proverb – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Team means Together Everyone Achieves More!” — Anon. – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder… [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: “We believe in each other.”” — Anon. – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” — Anon. – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an “I” in “team.” It is the same “I” that appears three times in “responsibility.”” — Amber Harding – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Meade – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.” — Anon. – “Team-Building Quotes” – TeambuildingLeader.com
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” — Anon. – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Michael Jordan – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” — Trenton Lee Stewart – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” — Patrick Lencioni – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“I love teamwork. I love the idea of everyone rallying together to help me win.” — Jarod Kintz – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.” — Chris Bradford – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“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 – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“It’s as simple as this. When people don’t unload their opinions and feel like they’ve been listened to, they won’t really get on board.” — Patrick Lencioni – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“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 – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“We = power” — Lorii Myers – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“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 Quotes” – GoodReads
“It takes two flints to make a fire.” — Louisa May Alcott – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.” — Adam S. McHugh – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“The best compliment for a man is to be treated like a true leader; one who is real, correct and righteous in his approach, attitude, temperament, behavior and most importantly, character.” — Anuj Somany – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.” — Jim George – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“The best part about teamwork, is me collecting all the prize money. Hey, that’s what captains are for, right?” — Jarod Kintz – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Real-time action of the leaders inspires the followers and the support-seeking word of the followers motivates the leaders.” — Anuj Somany – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“With teamwork, any little contribution you make yields greater output when it meets the contribution of others, and guess who gets the plus? Everyone in the team!” — Israelmore Ayivor – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“We’re a team. It’s part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we’d never get anything done.” — Jeramey Kraatz – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.” — Sara Sheridan, – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Teamwork: Easier Said than Done” — Nauman Faridi – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution” — Tony Dovale – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Time doesn’t conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.” — Michael Bassey Johnson – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“You will shape up and get better… But you’ll always have others to rely on as well. It’s the fact that we’re not each a detective going solo. We’re together. The unique talents of our friends fill in where we lack. There’s nothing wrong with that.” — Anon. – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.” — Sharon Robinson – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
“Even the strongest, most well-built team will, at times, be met with adversity. What makes us great is not that we should anticipate less adversity the stronger that we become, but rather that in anticipation of adversity we become stronger.” — Michael Joling – “Teamwork Quotes” – GoodReads
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