Best team & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.”

Ifs Needs May Able Space Team Fields Ceo Playing Fields

Author:Steve Ballmer

“But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.”

Ifs Needs Focus Week Team Presses Supposed To Be Surgery Conferences Session Circus Press Conferences Sideshows

Author:Donovan McNabb

“The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Team Figures Products Customers Focused Users Remakes

Author:John Katzman

“I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.”

Needs Hard Mistake Team Hard Work Get Better My Mistakes Learn From My Mistakes

Author:Brian Griese

“The state team is committed to working with our federal partners in meeting the needs of Floridians who were affected by Hurricane Wilma. We want to be as thorough as possible in this vital endeavor.”

Want Needs States Team Meetings Affection Committed Partners Affected Endeavor Hurricanes Thorough

Author:Craig Fugate

“In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.”

People Ifs Needs Motivational Together Goal Pay Vision Team Offers Succeed Benefits Organization Employee Working Together Teammate We Need Each Other

Book:The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

“We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.”

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Author:C. West Churchman

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good your PowerPoint slides are or your strategy or concept. What it really comes down to is your team. How motivated and willing are they to reinvent your organization and how much do they understand the evolving consumer need?”

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Author:Jeremy Gutsche

“Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has contributed significantly to the problems. The design team or installers did not pay sufficient attention to the needs of those who would be using the equipment, so confusion or error was almost unavoidable.”

Needs Humans Shows Problem Would Be Pay Attention Situation Team Design Serious Errors Careful Accidents Confusion Analysis Sufficient Equipment Installation Human Error

Author:Donald A. Norman

“I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.”

People Needs Ends Team Fronts Tools Focused Users Site User Experience

Author:Jimmy Wales

“A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.”

People Needs Desire Passion Leader Player Team Football Balance Willingness Mixtures Football Team Good Leader Technicians Keep Learning Communicators Great Football Astute

Author:Hope Powell

“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.”

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Author:Alex Ferguson

“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.”

“A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.”

Needs Individual Family Team Aim Aspiration Team Work Supporting Each Other

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here.”

“I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.”

Knows Way Needs Looks Long Enough Certain Games Winning Team Football Football Game

Author:Tony Romo

“I wanted my friends in the video because to leave a hard place, you need the support of your loved ones. My friends have always done that for me. I had my best girlfriends there, my brother, my guy friends who are like brothers to me and my team who's had my back through my journey. My lead guy was a good friend of mine and a talented artist named Quincy. He's such a cool guy and I felt he would be perfect for the video along with a cameo from Don Benjamin.”

“Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have”

Needs Mind Team Huge Hero Balance Judgment All Time Honour Modesty Cricket Brilliance Cricketers Playing Cricket

Author:Rahul Dravid

“The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.”

Needs Giving Sides Black White Common Brain Player Team Football Balance Skills Clubs Common Sense Managers Soccer Chairman Flair

Author:Ron Noades

“We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?”

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Author:Ted Leonsis

“Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.”

People Knows Way Needs Should Lines Practice Team Basketball Beats Concentration Mechanic Percentages Crooked Wrists Free Throw

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“I definitely want to direct. This is just another learning experience for me, to get a chance to hear the questions and concerns the directors have, some of their fears. It's a team sport. You have to give everybody what they need so they are able to perform at their best.”

Want Needs Giving Able Sports Chance Team Directors Concern Direct Learning Experience Sports Team

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role... Every single role is important.”

Thinking Needs Important Matter Winning Loses Roles Player Team Bigger Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters

Author:Bill O'Brien

“I really try hard to keep a good bead on the pulse of the team. Am I pushing the right buttons? When do I need to be harder on them? When do I need to have a little more fun with them? It's all about timing. The more I can do that the better chance we have for these guys to be hitting on all cylinders and reach their potential.”

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Author:Pete Lembo

“Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.”

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Author:Sam Cassell

“I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Long Young Sports Results Team Activity Mental Health Links Positive Results

Author:Tipper Gore

“I have the responsibility to work hard and get ready so we can take this team where we need to go.”

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Author:Philip Rivers

“Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence.”

People Needs Wells Long Enough Helping Mistake Leader Too Much Team Balance Offering Rescue Assistance Competence Rushing Sabotage Erode Micromanaging

Author:Diane Dreher

“To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.”

Needs Leader Successful Team Treats Coaching Being Successful

Author:Morgan Wootten

“They need to do two things if they’re going to be great and win a championship: take the ball away and keep teams out of the end zone. You have those two things, that’s the recipe for a championship.”

Ifs Needs Two Ends Winning Team Balls Two Things Zone Championship Recipes

Author:Willie McGinest

“I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!”

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Author:Ashanti

“You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.”

Ifs Knows Needs Guy Team Bottom Inventor Social Network Forensics

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.”

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Author:John P. Kotter

“You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.”

Needs Persons Games Sports Support Team Danger Football Depends Unique Glory Ultimate Coaches Injury Staff Teammate

Author:Tim Tebow

“I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?”

Ifs Needs Giving Persons Age Given Chance Responsibility Too Much Team Members Hiring Delegates Team Member

Author:Richard Branson

“A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.”

“If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.”

Ifs Needs Different Team Willing Goes On New You

Author:Rodney Brooks

“When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.”

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Author:Michael J. Saylor

“The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the helpof other men--we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.”

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Author:Frank Pittman

“Being an Olympic Medalist was a team effort. So I am honored to be a part of CBS Sports' WE NEED TO TALK cast of iconic women. Being part of a show with some of my broadcasting and sports idols is an honor.”

Needs Shows Sports Effort Team Honor Casts Idols Honored Iconic Broadcasting Team Effort

Author:Dara Torres

“When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.”

Needs Heart Running Moving Company Leader Vision Team My Heart

Author:Anna Wintour

“If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it.”

Ifs Want Needs Giving Different Play Helping Games Hurt Team Position Days Off

Author:Albert Pujols

“We need to start acting like a team, focus on winning and not worry about all of the other stuff that goes on. We lost our focus last year. We worried about who was being hired, who was being fired. That's got to change. We don't need any more finger pointing. We need to act like a team.”

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Author:Albert Belle

“Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers yourself. You don't need to throw the ball in the air and play catch with yourself. You get a bucket of balls and go out there with your clubs, and you hit and learn and you get better. And there's no top.”

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Author:George Lopez

“I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.”

People Needs Two My Own Team Entourage

Author:Kevin Gates

“God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.”

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