Teamwork Quotations | Page 5

Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together.

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.

Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively.

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.

The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get things done. It also taught me that everyone brings a different perspective, whether I agree with it or not, which helps me bridge the divide in Congress.

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight. And, like it or not, you're in it.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.

Rewards should go to teams as a whole.

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

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

The only way you can make a deal is if you're ready to blow it.

Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork -- still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.

Individuals score points, but teams win games.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

The path to greatness is along with others.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

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

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

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

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

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

The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

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

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.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

Kindness makes for much better teamwork.

Place the team above yourself always.

Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, I can expect half-hearted results. Most people get it the honest way by setting their goals and committing themselves to achieving their goals. That's the only way I did it anyway. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.

Collaboration is multiplication.

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

I am convinced more than ever that good communication and leadership are all about connecting. If you can connect with others at every level -one-on-one, in groups, and with an audience-your relationships are stronger, your sense of community improves, your ability to create teamwork increases, your influence increases, and your productivity skyrockets.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

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.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.