Quotes about Teamwork

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

Boys were to her, when she thought about them at all, merely possible good comrades.

She looked around the table. "All of you! You all worked together in concert perfectly. I am so proud of you! We did an impossible job, and we did it as well as it could be done. You not only worked together and did what was needed of you, you did more than a person can do, sometimes even more than a grown-up would do. I can't praise you enough. Thank you. And thanks to our heavenly Father.

United we stand, divided we fall.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.

But leadership is not always about getting things done "right." Leadership is about getting things done through other people. Leaders miss opportunities to play to their strengths because they haven't figured out that great leaders work through other leaders, who work through others. Leadership is about multiplying your efforts, which automatically multiplies your results.

Leadership is not always about getting things done "right." Leadership is about getting things done through other people…When a leader can't find someone to hand things off to, it is time for him to look in the mirror. We must never forget that the people who follow us are exactly where we have led them.

Nothing hinders morale more than when team members with separate agendas are pulling against one another.

When the point person in an organization strives for balance, he potentially robs other leaders of an opportunity to perform at the top of their game.

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.