Quotes on Team Building

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.

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

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.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

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

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

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

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

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.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

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.