Quotes on Building A Team

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

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

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

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

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.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.