45 Teamwork Quotes For Collaboration & Determination
Last updated: September 16, 2021
One of the most important aspects of any management strategy is the ability of a manager to recognize their team for the effort and performance. The following quotes will encourage, inspire, and motivate your team to collaborate and work together more effectively.
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- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
– Michael Jordan, professional basketball player - “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
– Henry Ford, American industrialist - “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford, American industrialist - “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
– Henry Ford, American industrialist - “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller, activist - “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
– Patrick Lencioni, team management author - “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
– Mattie Stepanek, American poet - “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
– Isaac Newton, English physicist - “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
– H.E. Luccock, American Methodist minister - “The ratio of we’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
– Lewis B. Ergen, American actor - “It takes two flints to make a fire.”
– Louisa May Alcott, American novelist - “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
– Steve Jobs, American business magnate - “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”
– Idowu Koyenikan, American author - “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.”
– Edwin Land, American scientist - "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."
– Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese writer - “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
– Virginia Burden, American author - “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry Truman, 33rd president - “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon, British businessman - "Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
– Vince Lombardi, American football coach - “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
– Iyanla Vanzant, Inspirational speaker - "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, American industrialist - “It’s better to be alone than in bad company.”
– George Washington, 1st U.S. president - “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.”
– Amy Poehler, American actress - "I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."
– Jean-Francois Cope, French politician - "None of us is as smart as all of us."
– Ken Blanchard, American author - “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?”
– Matthew Woodring Stover, American science fiction novelist - "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."
– Phil Jackson, American basketball coach - “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
– Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive - “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
– John Adams, 2nd U.S. president - “We rise by lifting others”
– Robert Ingersoll, American lawyer - "To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
– Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University basketball coach - "The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."
– James Cash Penney, American businessman - “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
– Biz Stone, American entrepreneur - “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
– George Shinn, former owner of the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets - “A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
– Rosalynn Carter, American writer - “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
– Abraham Lincoln, 16th president - “Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us”
– Barack Obama, 44rd president - “Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”
– Pat Riley, American professional basketball executive - “No individual can win a game by himself.”
– Pele, Brazilian professional soccer player - “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”
– Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn & American internet entrepreneur - “No team works out teamwork.”
– Dwyane Wade, former professional basketball player - “When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.”
– Michael Schumacher, German former F1 driver - "It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team."
– Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian author - “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.”
– Marissa Mayer, American businesswoman - “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.”
– Simon Sinek, British-American author
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