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“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.”

“Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

“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.”

“I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.”