Teamwork Quotes - Page 10

• If you can laugh together, you can work together.

  Robert Orben

  Inspiration, Laughing, Team Building

  Robert Orben (2000). “Speaker's Handbook of Humor”, Merriam Webster

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• In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Reading, Writing, School

  "A Radical Way Of Unleashing A Generation Of Geniuses" by Joshua Davis, www.wired.com. October 15, 2013.

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• To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

  Pat Summitt

  Team Building, Cost, Rewards

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.131, Crown Business

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• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

  Vince Lombardi

  Loyalty, Player, Love Is

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• Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

  Edward de Bono

  Strong, Creativity, Thinking

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• Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Ideas, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.124, Crown Business

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• Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.

  Michael Dell

  Dream, Unique, Technology

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• Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Skills

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• When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Motivation, Commitment, Track

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• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Frustration, People, Confusion

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Successful, Careers, People

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• Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

  Greg Brown

  Ambition, Incentives, Matter

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• Business schools must make the issues of leadership, teamwork, and culture a clearly visible priority if we are to maintain legitimacy and credibility as a source of knowledge for successful practice in today's global economy.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  School, Successful, Priorities

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• A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

  Pele

  Football, Games, Play

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Motivational, Success, Opportunity

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Wisdom, Smart

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A successful team beats with one heart.

  Sarah-Jane Redmond

  Success, Sports, Cheerleading

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• The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Pressure, Handle

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

  Arsene Wenger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Children, Heart, Knowledge

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• My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

  Gordon Brown

  Sports, School, Thinking

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• When we react to life from the head without joining forces with the heart, it can lead us into childish, inelegant behavior that we don't respect in ourselves. If we get the head in sync with the heart first, we have the power of their teamwork working for us and we can make the changes we know we need to make.

  Doc Childre

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

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