Team Collaboration Quotes

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

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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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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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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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Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Patrick Lencioni

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

Peter Drucker

Teamwork, Play, People

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.90, Routledge

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

John C. Maxwell

Success, Teamwork, Team Building

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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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Peace, Feelings

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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Peter Drucker

Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Teamwork, People, Team Building

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Two heads are better than one.

Unknown

Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Bill Bradley

Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.100, Bantam

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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

Donald Knuth

Teamwork, Strong, Team Building

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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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My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Feelings, Unity, Working Together

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Let us work together for unity and love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Feelings, Unity, Working Together

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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

Teamwork, Educational, Decision

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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

David Hume

Collaboration, Corn, Today

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Bud Wilkinson

Success, Teamwork, Sports

Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

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One man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

Halford Luccock

Life, Teamwork, Science

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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

Motivational, Teamwork, Teacher

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