Teamwork Quotes

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May these Teamwork Quotes inspire you to never give up and keep working towards your goals. Who knows—success could be just around the corner.

Teamwork is the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way. This concept is seen within the greater framework of a team, which is a group of interdependent individuals who work together towards a common goal.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back. – Michael Schumacher

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

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. – Japanese Proverb

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration. – Marissa Mayer

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

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.– Anonymous

A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other. – Simon Sinek

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

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

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

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. – Lee Iacocca

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

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

Teamwork is how everyday people achieve remarkable goals.– Anonymous

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

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

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

Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference. – Alison Pincus

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

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things. – Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

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

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. – John Wooden

Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do. – Robert Schuller

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

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

The way a team plays as whole determines it’s 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. – George Herman

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything. – Tahir Shah

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. – Stephen Covey

It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats. – Simon Sinek

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. – Mia Hamm

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. – Mary Kay Ash

No individual can win a game by himself. – Pele

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford

Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan

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

No team works out teamwork. – Dwyane Wade

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

The bigger the dream, the more important the team. – Robin Sharma

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

I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else. – Abby Wambach

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

None of us is as smart as all of us. – Ken Blanchard

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

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

You add value to people when you value them. – John Maxwell 

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

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 

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

In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly. – Mark Sanborn

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

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

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

The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. – Margaret Carty

Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. – Stephen Covey

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

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead 

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

A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken! – Bonnie Edelstein

Learning, without any opportunities to share what we’ve learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won’t do it as well. – Mike Schmoker

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

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues. – Franklin D Roosevelt

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

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. – Mark Zuckerberg

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford

There is little success where there is little laughter. – Andrew Carnegie

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.– Anonymous

I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. – Steve Jobs

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adam

In the end, a great leader is only known by the impact he or she has on others. – Jim Stovall

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. – Steve Jobs

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. – Jeff Bezos

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

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

When you wake up in the morning, you have two choices: go back to sleep, or wake up and chase those dreams.– Anonymous

An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. – Reid Hoffman

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

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

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

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world. Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. – Ray Goforth

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. – Mark Twain

Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. – Steve Jobs

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing it anyway. – Mark Burnett

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. – Dalai Lama

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill 

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

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy. – Dr. Henry Link

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. – Leonardo da Vinci

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. – Robert Kiyosaki

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your personal goals, then it’s moving you away from your personal goals. – Brian Tracy

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Abraham Lincoln

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. – Steve Jobs

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. – Pat Riley

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

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

We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Ben Franklin

A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction. – Justin Sewell

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. – Malcolm Forbes

Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard. – Tim Notke

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

Bad attitudes will ruin your team. – Terry Bradshaw

Teams share the burden and divide the grief. – Doug Smith

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary. – Bruce Coslet

A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way. – Swahili Proverb

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. – Edwin Land

The whole is other than the sum of the parts. – Kurt Koffka

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

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in. – Ariana Huffington

When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time. – Dr. Dre

The way a team plays as a whole determines it’s 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. – George Herman

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember. – Ginni Rometty

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

Teamwork makes the dream work. – Bang Gae

Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results. – Ifeanyi Onuoha

Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. – Sara Blakely

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. – Kenyan Proverb

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. – Ethiopian Proverb

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

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry Truman

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

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

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

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

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others. – Roy T. Bennett

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

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. – Ted Sundquist

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

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. – Peter F. Drucker

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

The value of achievement lies in the achieving. – Albert Einstein

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. – Helena Rubinstein

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. – Mahatma Gandhi

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly. – Bill Bradley

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

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

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

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

Success is best when it’s shared. – Howard Schultz

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence. – Mike Schmoker

A leader must inspire or his team will expire. – Orrin Woodward

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job. – Lou Holtz

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself. – Tibetan Proverb

Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part. – Casey Stengel

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

Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors. – Jocko Willink

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. – Aristotle

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. – Mike Krzyzewski

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy

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. – Rosalyn Carter

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. – John Rockefeller

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. – David Ogilvy

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. – Confucius

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. – Mahatma Gandhi

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team. – Phil Jackson

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. – Warren Bennis

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. – Jesse Jackson

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings-and put compensation as a carrier behind it-you almost don’t have to manage them. – Jack Welch

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no on ascends alone. – Lance Armstrong

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

People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. – Dr. Allan Fromme

Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us. – Tom Wilson

If you can laugh together, you can work together. – Robert Orben

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

In union there is strength. – Aesop

When we learn how to work together versus against each other things might start getting better. – Alex Elle

A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take. – Barbara Glacel

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

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. – Joe Paterno

Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we. – Anonymous

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. – Robert Reich

Many hands make light work. – John Heywood

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan

A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind. – Bill Bethel

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. – Proverb

Teamwork divides the task and double the success. – Anonymous

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit. – Sandra Swinney

The path to greatness is along with others. – Baltasar Gracion

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. – Kurt Koffka

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

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. – Andrew Carnegie

Quotes From Wikiquote

• There’s no I in team.
  • Anonymous english sports proverb, first recorded in a 1960 edition of the Daily Review, spoken by Verron Law.

• Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
  • Simon Mainwaring in: We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World, Macmillan, 7 June 2011, p. 125

• Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
  • Mattie Stepanek in: John Chen 50 Digital Team-Building Games:, John Wiley & Sons, 4 April 2012, p.125