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Teamwork Quotes

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

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

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

– Vesta M. Kelly

Shared value is the unifying force of a team.

Real teams don’t emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

– Katzenbach & Smith

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

– Katzenbach & Smith

Organization teams thrive on four types of team players: Contributors, Collaborators, Communicators, Challengers

None of us is as smart as all of us.

– Ken Blanchard

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

– H.E. Luccock

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

– Althea Gibson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

– Margaret Mead

Most teams aren’t teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.”

– Douglas McGregor

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

– Reinhold Niebuhr

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

– Coach Dean Smith

Members of groups that do not meet regularly usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Just because we are all equal does not mean we are all the same.

It’s surprising how much you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.

– Abraham Lincoln

Individuals score points, but teams win games.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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

– Thomas Edison

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

Houston, we have a problem.

– James Lovell

Group desire is different than individual desire. With individual desire, it’s up to you to feed the fire. With group desire, you get all kinds of people rolling logs on from every direction.

– Vince Pfaff

Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.

– Casey Stengel

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team’s purpose and performance aspirations.

– Katzenbach & Smith

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

– Bruce Coslet

Either we’re pulling together or we’re pulling apart.

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

– Sandra Richardson

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