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700 Motivational Teamwork Quotes To Inspire Your Employees

1. “Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.” – Anonymous


2. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” – James Cash Penney


3. “Getting good players is easy. Getting them to play together is the hard part.” -Casey Stengel.


4. “When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.” — Russel Honore


5. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” -Robert Orben.


6. You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. — Jim Stovall, Writer


7. “Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.” – Stuart Scott


8. If we were all determined to play the first violin, we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. -- Robert Schumann


9. Success is best when it’s shared. — Howard Schultz, Businessman


10. “Don't just speak for yourself,


11. “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” —Stanley McChrystal


12. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost


13. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell


14. “You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.”


15. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle


16. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” - Napoleon Hill


17. None of us is as smart as all of us. -- Ken Blanchard


18. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States


19. “There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win.”


20. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”


21. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well have not lived at all–in which case you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling


22. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln


23. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” – Mahatma Gandhi


24. “The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.” — Jay Samit


25. “The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.” — Rensis Likert


26. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”


27. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.


28. “Efficiency is doing better that what is already being done.” – Peter Drucker


29. “Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek


30. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.


31. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team -- Phil Jackson


32. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” - Virginia Burden (Click to Tweet!)


33. “I guess if a person didn’t quit when the going got tough, they wouldn’t have anything to regret for the rest of their life.”


34. “Joyfully we undertake our daily work.”


35. “One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.” - Jin Kwon


36. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” – Tony Robbins


37. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” —Michael Jordan


38. “Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.” — Casey Stengel


39. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”


40. “Individual commitment to a group effort — that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi


41. “Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become an architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma


42. “There is no ‘I’ in team but there is in win” – Michael Jordan


43. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you say, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou


44. “We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.” -Victoria Osteen.


45. “The difference between a successful person and the rest is not a lack of ability, but a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi.


46. “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” ― Idowu Koyenikan


47. “The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost


48. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” —Charles Buxton


49. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” -Jason Fried.


50. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


51. When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. — Joe Paterno, Football player


52. There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back. -- Billy Martin


53. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” ― Mark Sanborn


54. “If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big.” —Tom Hirshfield


55. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso


56. “The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” – Norman Vincent Peale


57. “The most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates.


58. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs


59. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius


60. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford


61. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill


62. “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


63. “Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again…” – Walt Disney


64. “You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again.” —Phillip Roth


65. 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


66. Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.


67. “Unity is strength...when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” - Mattie Stepanek


68. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”


69. “Knowledge is the source of wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes innovation.” – Peter Drucker


70. Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much. — Helen Keller, Writer


71. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn


72. “A genuine leader is not a searcher of consensus, but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.


73. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results” -Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha.


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


75. “Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.” -Brian Tracy.


76. “Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.” — Max De Pree


77. “A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.”


78. Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is a success. — Henry Ford, Business magnate


79. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” – Orrin Woodward


80. “Teamwork might make the dream work, but teammates make the team work.” – Lance Loya


81. “A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.”


82. “Not finance, not strategy, not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage both because it is so powerful and rare.” - Patrick Lencioni


83. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs


84. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” - David Bly


85. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill


86. “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


87. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Ginni Rometty.


88. “How you think when you lose determined how long it will be until you win.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton.


89. “A Leader must work on gaining his team trust " it is not gifted, it is earned!”


90. “Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.” -Allan Sloan.


91. “The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” — Mia Hamm


92. “Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.” —Jim Carrey


93. “So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” ― Bahaullah


94. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho


95. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams. — John Katzenbach , Author


96. “No individual can win a game by himself.”


97. “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” - Charles Darwin


98. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock


99. “By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.”


100. “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, American Baseball Player


101. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”


102. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”


103. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”


104. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey


105. A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all. — Jacqueline Novogratz, Entrepreneur


106. “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


107. “We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” —Madeleine L’Engle


108. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.


109. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” Iyanla Vanzant


110. Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do. — Robert Schuller, Televangelist


111. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” Ifeanyi Onuoha


112. “It takes both sides to build a bridge” - Fredrik Nael (Click to Tweet!)


113. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” — James Cash Penney


114. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?”


115. “No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.”


116. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to success is to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison.


117. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn.


118. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”


119. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.


120. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” —Robin Williams


121. “Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it’s a bunch of random people interacting.” - Jimmy Wales (Click to Tweet!)


122. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Margaret Carty


123. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”


124. “Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.” -Robert Schuller.


125. “A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.” —Chinua Achebe


126. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” Oliver Wendell Holmes


127. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee


128. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” -African Proverb.


129. “Don’t try to rush progress. Remember, a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.” – Kara Goucher


130. “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” - Norman Shidle


131. “The team works because of teamwork.” – Dele Ola


132. “I have to serve with all my might.”


133. “Confidence comes from being prepared.”


134. “A person doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” – Joe Dimaggio


135. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”


136. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington


137. “When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.”


138. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” Matthew Woodring Stover


139. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”


140. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” —Jillian Michaels


141. “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, American Entrepreneur and Author


142. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” - Mark Sanborn (Click to Tweet!)


143. “Making things better requires that you understand how people feel in response to what you do.”


144. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps, you could be one of the exceptions.” -Steve Case (Click to Tweet!)


145. “Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.” — Max McKeown


146. “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing.” — Marc Chagall


147. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”


148. “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”


149. “Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 percent is persuasion.” – Shiv Khera.


150. “Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs


151. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryūnosuke Satoro


152. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar


153. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO. — Max McKeown, Writer


154. “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It”


155. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust, and the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” - Patrick Lencioni


156. “People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.” - Dr. Allan Fromme


157. “You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.” — Henry Ford


158. “You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa


159. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn


160. “Organisational Culture is the generalised mindset that guides your people to live out the company purpose.


161. Entrepreneurship is a great leveller. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.


162. “Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” — Becka Schoettle


163. “Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that you will be okay no matter how things turn out.” —Garth Ennis


164. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.


165. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” -Steve Jobs.


166. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” Harry S Truman


167. “Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.” —Ellen Degeneres


168. “You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise.” – Patricia Fripp.


169. “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” – H. Jackson Brown


170. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” —Marie Curie


171. “Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” – Becka Schoettle


172. “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


173. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. — Henry Ford, Business magnate


174. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” – Franz Kafka


175. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.”


176. “There is no such thing as a “one-man show” in a winning team.” – Jose B. Cabajar


177. “Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.” – Anonymous


178. “Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” - Patrick Lencioni


179. “Many hands make light work.” -John Heywood.


180. “Defeat is a state of mind: no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.” – Bruce Lee


181. “So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” –Baha’u’llah.


182. “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”


183. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” Phil Jackson


184. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ―Mark Twain


185. “Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.” —Benjamin Disraeli


186. “Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


187. “Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” – Patrick Lencioni


188. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”


189. “Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.”


190. “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” — Mattie Stepanek


191. “No team works out teamwork.”


192. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” -Phil Jackson.


193. “There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing.” —Aristotle


194. “Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine” – Jack Ma.


195. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.


196. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh


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


198. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro


199. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank


200. “Hunting the Deceitful Turkey”


201. “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 (Click to Tweet!)


202. “No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.”


203. You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. -- Jim Stovall


204. “[Team player vs team builder]


205. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson


206. “A great team consists of great people who believe in the idea of its leader and align themselves with it until it achieved.” – Aiyaz Uddin


207. “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”


208. “Hire character. Train skill.” —Peter Schutz


209. “Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.” – Vince Lombardi


210. “Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.” John C. Maxwell


211. “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda


212. “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth.” ―William Faulkner


213. “It takes two flints to make a fire.” -Louisa May Alcott.


214. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover


215. “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.” – Michelle Obama


216. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”


217. “The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.”


218. “When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.” – Russel Honore


219. “ Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” - John D. Rockefeller


220. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” James Cash Penney


221. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” — Napolean Hill


222. “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” - Vince Lombardi


223. “We rise by lifting others.” -Robert Ingersoll.


224. “When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team.” – Mike Krzyzewski


225. “Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.”


226. “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” – Steve Jobs


227. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” – Venus Williams


228. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell


229. “Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” Patrick Lencioni


230. “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” —Nikola Tesla


231. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton


232. “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”


233. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.”


234. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” ―George R.R. Martin


235. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” Lee Iacocca


236. “If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.” ―Jack Canfield


237. “Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.” —Dr. Seuss


238. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”


239. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” — Margaret Carty


240. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” —Salvador Dali


241. “A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player.” – John Wooden


242. “To play a good game, you need a few players.” R.J. Torbert


243. “Leadership is an invitation to greatness we extend by example.” – Mark Sanborn


244. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins


245. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Suess


246. “The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.” – Eric Thomas.


247. “It takes both sides to build a bridge.” – Fredrik Nael


248. “A leader must inspire or his team will expire.” — Orrin Woodward


249. “Live out your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey


250. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair


251. “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


252. “Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” — Patrick Lencioni


253. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi


254. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”


255. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison


256. “The ratio of ‘We’ to ‘I’ is the best indicator of the development of a team.” Lewis B Ergen


257. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey


258. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin


259. “There’s nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.” Billy Martin


260. “Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.” -Brian Tracy.


261. “Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight.”


262. “Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.


263. “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” Biz Stone


264. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” - H.E. Luccock


265. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton


266. No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.


267. Team player is the one who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others, and developing trust. — Dennis Kinlaw, Scholar


268. “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”


269. “Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.” ― Patrick Lencioni


270. The path to greatness is along with others. — Baltasar Gracion, Spanish Writer


271. “If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” —Ernest Hemingway


272. “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” -Tim Notke.


273. “When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.” — Tibetan Proverb


274. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else” - Booker T. Washington


275. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


276. “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


277. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela


278. “With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.” Ogwo David Emenike


279. “Why do you form a team? Because teamwork builds trust, and trust builds speed.” - General Russel Honoré (Click to Tweet!)


280. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain


281. “Unless our standards are high in everything, the entire group will retrogress to the lowest level. We’ll try to look the neatest and be the cleanest and the smartest. In every possible ramification, we’re going to try to shoot for the moon.” - Bud Wilkinson


282. ‍“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” - Ryunosuke Satoro (Click to Tweet!)


283. “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” — Swahili Proverb


284. “When we all help one another, everybody wins.” – Jim Stovall


285. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” – Robert Tew


286. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain, Writer


287. “It takes two flints to make a fire.” Louisa May Alcott


288. “You have the power on your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”


289. 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


290. “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi


291. “The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.” —Michael Scott


292. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton


293. “A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” -Bill Bethel.


294. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde


295. “Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.” Max McKeown


296. “It’s easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it’s hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.” —Tony Fadell


297. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, products, and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.


298. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” —Florence Nightingale


299. “What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.” — Kareem Abdul— Jabbar, American Basketball Player


300. “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.


301. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry


302. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.”


303. “There is no fun in doing something alone.”


304. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney


305. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. -- Michael Jordan


306. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” ― Virginia Burden


307. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison


308. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” —Carl Sagan


309. “Teamwork requires that everyone’s efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team’s energy takes on a life of its own.” — Pat Riley


310. “The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”


311. “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” - Simon Mainwaring


312. It takes both sides to build a bridge. — Fredrik Nael, Author


313. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” - Robert Kiyosaki


314. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” -Jean-Paul Sartre.


315. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” —Joseph Campbell


316. “Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” —Gertrude B. Elion


317. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” Helen Keller


318. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” -Lee Iacocca.


319. “In union there is strength.”


320. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale


321. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.


322. “The path to greatness is along with others.” — Baltasar Gracian


323. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C. S. Lewis


324. “We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersoll


325. “Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” — Mark Twain


326. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand


327. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend.” —Walt Disney


328. “Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.” -Patrick Lencioni.


329. “Questions are more effective than statements in moving others.” – Daniel Pink.


330. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.” — Vince Lombardi Jr.


331. “Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” – Lee Iacocca


332. “He who masters the power formed by a group of people working together has within his grasp one of the greatest powers known to man.”


333. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” —Henry Ford


334. “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


335. “Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.”


336. “Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.” — Israelmore Ayivor


337. “Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.” – Ashleigh Brilliant


338. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” -Ken Blanchard.


339. “When what they feel evokes something familiar in you, you’re likely to mimic their emotions unconsciously.”


340. “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a bad dream and a bad team.” – John C. Maxwell.


341. “Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.” -Anonymous.


342. “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is people who trust each other.” -Simon Sinek.


343. “Do or do not. There is no try.”


344. “Success has a price. If you aren’t prepared to pay it, you shouldn’t expect to achieve it.” – Dan Waldschmidt.


345. “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” ― Ted Sundquist


346. “The bigger the dream, the more important to the team” - Robin Sharma (Click to Tweet!)


347. “Self-other awareness enables you to show respect for their feelings instead of being overwhelmed by their feelings, your pity, or your intolerance.”


348. “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” Norman Shidle


349. “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” —Zig Ziglar


350. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


351. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie


352. “No team works out teamwork.” -Dwyane Wade.


353. In business, nothing great can be done by one person alone (typically) but, with a team, great things can happen. — Steven Dunlop, Entrepreneur


354. “Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.” - Mike Schmoker


355. “I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” — Lee Iacocca


356. “Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.” – Robin Sharma


357. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” Jean-Francois Cope


358. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”


359. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.


360. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth


361. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress.” – Sophia Bush


362. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James


363. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They are done by a team of people.”


364. “Coming together is a beginning…keeping together is progress…working together is a success.” -Henry Ford.


365. “There is not a single leaf which is a mere ornament; all contribute to the fruitfulness of the earth, and the support of its inhabitants.” - Christoph Christian Sturm (Click to Tweet!)


366. Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. -- Brian Tracy


367. “Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” —Neil Gaiman


368. “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


369. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford


370. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda


371. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — H.E. Luccock


372. “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”


373. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” —Bob Riley


374. “Individual commitment to a group effort: That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” -Vince Lombardi.


375. “Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.” ―Jane Goodall


376. “Be undeniable.” —Ralphie May


377. “It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.”


378. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo Da Vinci


379. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” -Booker T. Washington.


380. “Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” -Patrick Lencioni.


381. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality time we put in.”


382. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery


383. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison


384. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower


385. “It takes two flints to make a fire.” – Louisa May Alcott


386. “The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.” - Rensis Likert (Click to Tweet!)


387. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote


388. A single leaf working alone provides no shade. — Chuck Page, Author


389. “The secret of getting ahead is just getting started.” – Mark Twain.


390. “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.


391. “Those with the least social capital and power shouldn’t be asked to instigate the most change.”


392. “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.”


393. “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” Mattie Stepanek


394. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington


395. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds aren’t in your favor.” – Elon Musk


396. “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” -Lewis B. Ergen.


397. “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” – Kenyan Proverb


398. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” -Ryunosuke Satoro.


399. “No man is wise enough by himself.” — Plautus


400. “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” ― Lewis B Ergen


401. Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers to the earth. — Amit Ray, Author


402. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”


403. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson


404. “Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.” — Robert Schuller


405. “There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more.” —Robert M. Hensel


406. “The key to mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you – how great you are, and what you do – to make statements about them.” – Jeffrey Gitomer.


407. “No team works out teamwork.” – Dwyane Wade


408. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” -Helen Keller.


409. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou


410. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton, Physicist


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


412. It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats. — Simon Sinek, Author


413. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus


414. “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.”


415. “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.” —Abraham Lincoln


416. “When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘we’ even ‘illness’ becomes ‘wellness’.” - Shannon L. Adler


417. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. — Napoleon Hill, Author


418. “If one member of the team is not at their full capacity, the team cannot be at its full capacity.” – Britt Andreatta


419. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” — Robert Orben20.


420. Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses and their concerns without fear of reprisal. -- Patrick Lencioni


421. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.


422. “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”


423. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” – Robert Orben


424. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz


425. “To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.” - Christine Caine


426. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar.


427. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan


428. “Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.”


429. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ―Jim Rohn


430. None of us is as smart as all of us. — Ken Blanchard, Writer


431. Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.


432. ‍“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” - Helen Keller (Click to Tweet!)


433. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln


434. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” —Conan O’Brien


435. “Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.” - Dinesh Paliwal


436. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.


437. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt


438. “It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower


439. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” George Shinn


440. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” —Muhammad Ali


441. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Anne Frank


442. “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


443. “The bigger the dream, the more important the team.” — Robin Sharma


444. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.


445. “How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.” —Shuri, Black Panther


446. “The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”


447. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson


448. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” — Bang Gae


449. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain


450. “I never lose. Either I win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela


451. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt


452. “Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team’s purpose and performance aspirations.” — John Katzenbach


453. There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. —George Shinn, Businessman


454. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” - Robert Orben


455. “If you look for perfection, you will never be content.”


456. “The Celebrat4ed Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”


457. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill.


458. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” — Rosalynn Carter


459. “Together, we can achieve more.” Anonymous.


460. “With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.”


461. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now, who wants that?” — Mathew Woodring


462. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” —Dale Carnegie


463. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.


464. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” -James Cash Penney.


465. If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now, who wants that? — Matthew Woodring Stover, Novelist


466. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.


467. “The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.” — Rem Koolhaas


468. “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”


469. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller


470. “Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.” – Brian Tracy


471. If you can laugh together, you can work together. — Robert Orben, Writer


472. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Michael Jordan


473. “The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time”


474. “The 8th Habit”


475. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.” —Wayne Dyer


476. “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” Mike Krzyzewski


477. “A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins


478. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote


479. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.


480. “You are either supporting the vision or supporting division” ― Saji Ijiyemi


481. “Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements and your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses.” – Joel Brown


482. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Henry Ford


483. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.


484. “Maintaining high levels of motivation isn’t easy, but keep in mind that: “A leader must inspire or his team will expire.” — Orrin Woodward


485. Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives. — Tom J. Bouchard, American Psychologist


486. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” —Henry David Thoreau


487. “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”


488. “Service to humanity is service to God.”


489. “I can do things you cannot; you can do things I cannot. Together, we can do great things.” -Mother Teresa.


490. “Ego is the ultimate killer on a team.” – Patrick Lencioni


491. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale.


492. “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”


493. We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr., Activist


494. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things.”


495. Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare. — Patrick Lencioni, Author


496. “Teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” -Mike Krzyzewski.


497. “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.” ― Anne Lamott


498. “When you wake up in the morning, you have two choices: go back to sleep, or wake up and chase those dreams” - Author Unknown


499. “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”


500. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” - Vince Lombardi (Click to Tweet!)


501. “Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us” – Barack Obama


502. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” - Ken Blanchard


503. “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” —Hermann Hesse


504. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”


505. “We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” ― Ben Franklin


506. “No problem is insurmountable, With a little courage, teamwork and determination a can overcome anything.” — B Dodge


507. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” - Henry Ford (Click to Tweet!)


508. “Teamwork is working together, even when apart.” -Anonymous.


509. “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.” — Marissa Mayer


510. “You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve and you’ll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.


511. “First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership”


512. Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals. — Byron Pulsifer, Author


513. “Strong and cohesive teams thrive when leaders highlight how much they all have in common, not how much he or she stands above from the crowd.” - Moira Alexander


514. It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. — Charles Darwin, Naturalist


515. It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.


516. “Workers are begging us to lighten their load, to remove the burdens, the hassles, and the irritants that come with video meetings.”


517. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” -Michael Jordan.


518. “We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.”


519. “Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow—it’s found in the here and now. Today I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional landmines and choose joy and gratitude instead.” — RuPaul


520. ‘Losing my startup almost broke me. Two years later, I’ve changed my life and 1000s of others.’


521. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller


522. My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of its parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. — Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple


523. “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.” – Henry Ford


524. “Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”


525. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”


526. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napolean Hill


527. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. — Emily Kimbrough, American Author


528. “No individual can win a game by himself.” — Pelé


529. Teamwork is a make-or-break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you. — Kris A. Hiatt, Novelist


530. “It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.”


531. “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho


532. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” - Amy Poehler (Click to Tweet!)


533. “If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you made.” - Iyanla Vanzant


534. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey.


535. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” ―Margaret Atwood


536. “Nobody’s going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.” — Jamais Cascio


537. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” —Thomas Jefferson


538. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”


539. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” —Stephen Hawking


540. To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority. — Christine Caine, Writer


541. “A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.” — John Katzenbach


542. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African Proverb


543. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel.


544. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.” – Earl Nightingale


545. Individual commitment to a group effort: That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. -- Vince Lombardi


546. “TEAM = Together, Everyone, Achieves, More.” – Anonymous


547. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.


548. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha


549. “There’s no abiding success without commitment.“


550. “If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more.”


551. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” – John C. Maxwell


552. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard


553. “Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.”


554. “You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.”


555. “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


556. “Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” -Anonymous.


557. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot


558. A group becomes teammates when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. — Norman Shidle, Author


559. “In an ever-changing, hyper-competitive workplace and marketplace, for you to truly be of worth as a leader, you therefore know: you must develop your capacity for empathy.”


560. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou


561. “When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when you team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.” — Bo Schembechler


562. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people.” - Steve Jobs (Click to Tweet!)


563. “Good team and network promotes amazing results.” – Lailah Gifty Akita


564. “Collaboration is the best way to work… Everyone’s there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.” - Antony Starr


565. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer


566. “Great leaders don't just establish a following; they create an army of leaders who are empowered to think for themselves and become their


567. “There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.”


568. “Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.” – Mark Twain


569. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” Patrick Lencioni


570. “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”


571. “Competition makes us faster; collaboration makes us better.” – Author Unknown


572. “If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.” —Barbara McClintock


573. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb


574. “Fact is you need to normalize that Mr. and Mrs. average employee normally exists. Think of it this way, if you have a class with 30 students, it is statistically impossible that the 30 are ranked number 1! upon applying this logic on any company/ start up/ SME size same bell curve thinking applies and 80% of the workforce will be in the average zone”


575. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” Mark Sanborn


576. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss


577. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington


578. “Failing is a crucial part of success. Every time you fail and get back up, you practice perseverance, which is the key to life. Your strength comes in your ability to recover.” – Michelle Obama


579. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” Virginia Burden


580. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. — Kurt Koffka, Psychologist


581. “If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever.” – Sam Walton


582. “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 (Click to Tweet!)


583. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”


584. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. — E. Luccock, American Professor and Author


585. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt


586. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” Ken Blanchard


587. “Collaboration is multiplication.”


588. “Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.” — Tom J. Bouchard


589. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” Michael Jordan


590. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.


591. “High Performance teams disrupt themselves to be future future and increase AdaptAgility. Fear based teams driven by greed protect the status quo, to be safe....but it's clearly not a safe smart approach to retain the status quo.”


592. “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” – Lewis B. Ergen


593. “We all can work, but together we win.” -Anonymous.


594. Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team. — Brian Tracy, Author


595. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.


596. “The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two.” —Douglas Adams


597. “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” — Norman Shidle


598. “If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.” —Buddha


599. 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, American Baseball Player


600. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” -Jean-Francois Cope.


601. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” - Henry Ford (Click to Tweet!)


602. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” — Peter F. Drucker


603. There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. -- George Shinn


604. ‍“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller


605. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”


606. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter


607. Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi, Football coach


608. “It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.” — Lailah Gifty Akita


609. Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much. -- Helen Keller


610. “If you can change your mind you can change your life.” – William James.


611. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey


612. “The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.” — John Bardeen


613. “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” - African proverb


614. “Empathy greases the wheels of productivity.”


615. “Teamwork makes the dream work.”


616. “Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey.


617. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”


618. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” ―Neil deGrasse Tyson


619. “Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.” Kris A. Hiatt


620. “Success in life comes when you simply refuse to give up, with goals so strong that obstacles, failure, and loss only act as motivation.” – Anonymous


621. “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” Elbert Hubbard


622. “Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.” – Paul Solarz


623. “Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication.” – Mike Krzyzewski


624. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” – Mahatma Gandhi


625. “Leadership is not following the crowd but focusing on removing the pains and problems of the crowd. ”


626. “Most people think ‘selling’ is the same as ‘talking,’ but the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.” – Roy Bartell.


627. ‍“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” - Michael Jordan (Click to Tweet!)


628. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” -Margaret Carty.


629. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”


630. “Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”


631. “You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” — Jim Stovall


632. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” —Roald Dahl


633. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho


634. Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable. — Chris Bradford, Author


635. “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” — Mother Teresa


636. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States


637. A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead, American Cultural Anthropologist


638. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou.


639. “I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.”


640. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford


641. “Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals.” — Byron Pulsifer


642. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford


643. “The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.”


644. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”


645. “True leaders always practice the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all their actions.” – Anonymous


646. “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” — Mike Krzyzewski


647. The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. — Margaret Carty, American Politician


648. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball


649. “If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”


650. 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, American Entrepreneur, and Author


651. “Unity is strength…when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” -Mattie Stepanek.


652. “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” —Theodore Roosevelt


653. “If you say, I know just how you feel, you show the other person you’re thinking about how you feel, and you’re assuming your experience is the same as theirs.”


654. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll


655. “A boss has the title. A leader has the people.” – Simon Sinek


656. ‍“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” - Jim Stovall (Click to Tweet!)


657. “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama


658. I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.


659. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Harold R. McAlindon


660. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey


661. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson


662. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey


663. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. — Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese Writer


664. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis


665. In teamwork, silence isn't golden, it's deadly. -- Mark Sanborn


666. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.” —Mark Twain


667. “We rise by lifting others” Robert Ingersoll


668. “Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” — Patrick Lencioni


669. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” —C.S. Lewis


670. If you can laugh together, you can work together -- Robert Orben


671. “Many hands make light work.” — John Heywood


672. “To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli


673. “You are either supporting the vision or supporting division”


674. “We’re a team. One person struggles, we all struggle. One person triumphs, we all triumph.”


675. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali


676. “Imitation is suicide.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson


677. “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni


678. “Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference.” — Alison Pincus


679. “When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.” -Russel Honore.


680. “Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.” Brian Tracy


681. I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues. — Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States


682. “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” – Brian Tracy.


683. “The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse” – Jason Mason.


684. “We are team. One person struggles; we all struggle. One person triumphs, we all triumph.” -Coach Carter.


685. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”


686. “A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” – Bill Bethel


687. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan


688. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” —Jack London


689. “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” - Mother Teresa (Click to Tweet!)


690. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson, American Baseball Player and Coach


691. “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” — John Rockefeller


692. “The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.” -Thomas Stallkamp.


693. “Don’t focus on the pain, focus on the progress.” – Dwayne Johnson


694. Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work. — John Maxwell, Author


695. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.”


696. “You must do the kind of things you think you cannot do.”- Eleanor Roosevelt


697. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin


698. “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


699. “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.”


700. “Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.” — John C. Maxwell


701. “You can’t force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves” – Phil Jackson


702. “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”


703. “Cannibalism in the Cars”


704. If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast.


705. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain


706. “It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up.” —Vince Lombardi


707. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz


708. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer


709. “The first part of empathy, the first requirement for action on their behalf, is to understand how they feel.”


710. Team spirit is knowing and living the belief that what a group of people can accomplish together is much larger, far greater, and will exceed that which an individual can accomplish alone. — Diane Arias, Founder of Decedario


711. “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”


712. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.


713. “It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey.


714. “It takes two flints to make a fire” - Louisa May Alcott


715. “The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be” – David Ogilvy.


716. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. — African Proverb


717. “Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.” - Paul Solarz


718. “You don’t win alone. That’s just how it is.” — Tobio Kageyama


719. “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.”


720. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” —Helen Keller


721. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein


722. “Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.” -Mo Rocca.


723. “If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one.” – Jack Ma


724. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.


725. “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


726. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington


727. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” —Dr. Seuss


728. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” Steve Jobs


729. “Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.”


730. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill


731. “If culture doesn't truly support team coherent dynamicity, if the culture in more simple words is toxic, weak, complacent. Do not expect wonders because the driver of individuals will be self protection and avoidance of conflict!”


732. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn


733. “Savvy leaders use empathy to relieve that emotional strain. They use it so that video meetings are beneficial for everyone.”


734. “Doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting.” – Seth Godin.


735. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson


736. “The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.” —Antos Parrish


737. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson


738. “Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.”

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