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Team Collaboration Quotes

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Many hands make light work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.”

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

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

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”