Quotes about Teamwork

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

I let out air, nod my head. "Hey." Danny gets up from his chair and sits down next to me on the couch. He lightly punches my knee. "Being in charge isn't being alone. I'm right here. Same place I've always been, no matter what your title is. Same place I'll always be." "Yeah, I—I know." I look at him. "I know that.

Every church, every team, every organization demands and deserves a "vision embodier," someone whose life values and commitments personify the vision. Cut them and they bleed the vision.

accomplishing a vision requires a lot more than pep talks, slogans, emotional stories, and heart-tugging video clips.

Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Leaders ought never to allow the least motivated members of an organization to set the pace for the others. Rather

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way.

My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.