Team Building Quotes

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

  Alexis Carrel

  Teamwork, Helping Others, People

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• To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Teamwork, Important

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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• When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Joe Paterno

  Teamwork, Confidence, Reality

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• 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, Powerful, Technology

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Knowing, Doe

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Ideas, People

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• Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Inspirational, Strength, Teamwork

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Team, Organization, Firsts

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• My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Careers, Boss

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

  Jack Welch

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• 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

  Teamwork, Strong, Simple

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• Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

  Jack Welch

  Senior, Team, People

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• The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Player, Winning

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• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Smart

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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  A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, Trust, Teamwork

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

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