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“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.”

“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”

“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune”

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

“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.”

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

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.”

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

“Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.”

“Many hands make light work.”

“A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.”

“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.”

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

“What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.”

“Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.”

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

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

“One man cannot make a team.”

“Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.”

“Light is the task where many share the toil.”

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

“Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.”

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.”

“Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.”

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

“Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”