Team Building Quotes And Sayings

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“I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity… to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.”
– Paul McCartney

“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

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
– Peter Drucker

” Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
– Peter Drucker

“The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“No man is wise enough by himself.”
– Plautus

“Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?”
– R. Meredith Belbin

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men have never been individually self-sufficient.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr

“Teams are not ends in themselves; they are a means by which to achieve other organizational goals.”
– Richard Wellins

“You put together the best team that you can with the players you’ve got, and replace those who aren’t good enough.”
– Robert Crandall

“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 F. Bales

“It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.”
– Robert Yates

“A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.”
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.”
– Sandra Richardson

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
– Socrates

“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”
– Stephen Covey

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
– Stephen Covey

“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

“Conflict is inevitable in a team … in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.”
– Susan Gerke

“It is amazing how much people get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.”
– Swahili proverb

“Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
– Thomas Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.”
– Tom Bouchard

” Compromising doesn’t mean that you are wrong & someone is right. It only means that you value your Relationship much more than your Ego.”
– Unknown

“It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”
– Unknown

“There is no “I” in “TEAMWORK”.”
– Unknown

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