Quotes on Building A Team

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

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.

No individual can win a game by himself.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

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

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.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.