When true team work happens, everything changes. You're working faster, finding mistakes easier, and innovating better. To inspire your team to band together and celebrate collaboration, we've gathered some of our favorite quotes on the power of teamwork.
2. “Alone we can do so
little; together we can
do so much.”
Helen Keller
3. “If everyone is moving
forward together, then
success takes care of
itself.”
Henry Ford
4. “Many ideas grow better
when transplanted into
another mind than the one
where they sprang up.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
5. “If I have seen further, it
is by standing on the
shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton
6. “No one can whistle a
symphony. It takes a
whole orchestra to
play it.”
H.E. Luccock
7. “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
8. “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
9. “Coming together is a
beginning, staying together
is progress, and working
together is success.”
Henry Ford
10. “Talent wins games, but
teamwork and
intelligence win
championships.”
Michael Jordan
11. “The strength of the
team is each
individual member.
The strength of each
member is the team.”
Phil Jackson
12. “The best teamwork comes
from men who are working
independently toward one
goal in unison.”
James Cash Penney
14. “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
15. “Effectively, change is
almost impossible without
industry-wide
collaboration, cooperation,
and consensus.”
Simon Mainwaring
16. “Teamwork begins by building
trust. And the only way to do
that is to overcome our need
for invulnerability.”
Patrick Lencioni
17. “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
18. “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
19. “There is no such thing as a
self-made man. You will
reach your goals only with
the help of others.”
George Shinn
20. “It is literally true that you
can succeed best and
quickest by helping others
to succeed.”
Napolean Hill
21. “The whole is other than
the sum of the parts.”
Kurt Koffka
22. “A group becomes a team when
each member is sure enough
of himself and his contribution
to praise the skills of others.”
Norman Shidle
23. “The ratio of We’s to I’s
is the best indicator of
the development of a
team.”
Lewis B. Ergen
24. “Individual commitment to a
group effort -- that is what
makes a team work, a
company work, a society
work, a civilization work.”
Vince Lombardi
25. “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
26. “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
27. “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
28. “If you want to lift
yourself up, lift up
someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
29. “Great things in business
are never done by one
person; they’re done by a
team of people.”
Steve Jobs
32. “None of us, including me, ever
do great things. But we can do
small things, with great love,
and together we can do
something wonderful.”
Mother Teresa
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