Team Building Quotes And Sayings

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“A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.”
– Lee Iacocca

“I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
– Lee Iacocca

“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
– Lewis B. Ergen

“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.”
– Lou Holtz

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
– Madame DuDeffand

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”
– Margaret Carty

“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

“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.”
– Mark Sanborn

“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

“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.”
– Mark Sanborn

“Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”
– Mark Twain

“Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.”
– Mark Twain

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain

“Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.”
– Marvin Weisbord

“The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential…the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.”
– Max DePree

“Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.”
– Max DePree

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
– Michael Jordan

“Earn your leadership every day.”
– Michael Jordan 

“If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.”
– Michelangelo

“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.”
– Ned Lautenbach

“Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.”
– Nicholas Boileau 

“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 

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.”
– Patrick Lencioni

“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 remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it’s virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) – ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn’t require masterful insights or tactics).”
– Patrick Lencioni

“Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.”
– Patrick Lencioni

“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

“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).”
– Patrick Lencioni

“In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first-ahead of personal glory.”
– Paul Bear Bryant

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