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“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

“The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”

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

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

“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.”

“We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”

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

“Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.”

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

“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.”

“Part of being able to make great decisions around that and to really grow a business and scale a business, it also comes down to people. I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses - both The Trump Organization and my own - and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.”

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

“A list is only as strong as its weakest link.”

“I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.”

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”

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

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

“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.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

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

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.”

“It takes two flints to make a fire.”

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

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