Team Building Quotes - Page 5

• If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Teamwork, People, Kicks

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• The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

  Will Self

  Team, Party, Drinking

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

  Lee Iacocca

  Teamwork, People, Team Work

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.61, Bantam

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• Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Responsibility

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• Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

  Meredith Belbin

  Teamwork, Mind, Working Together

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Teamwork, Emotional, Differences

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• Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

  George Halas

  Team, Nfl, Want

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• Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

  Max De Pree

  Teamwork, Real, Team Work

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• 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 Bales

  Teamwork, Jobs, Organization

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• Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Teamwork, Strong, Educational

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• Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Teamwork, Practice, Skills

  Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.50, ASCD

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• Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Teamwork, Destiny, Ideas

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• Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

  Max McKeown

  Teamwork, Sports, Teammate

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• Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, People, Effort

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.57, Mango Media Inc.

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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• Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Teamwork, Sports

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• It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Team, Race, Healthy

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• There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

  Bill Klem

  Sports, Team, Should Have

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• But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Team, Boxes

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• Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

  Don Nelson

  Team, Fighting, Guy

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Teamwork, Kids

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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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• Many hands make light work.

  John Heywood

  Change, Teamwork, Hands

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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