Quotes on Team Collaboration

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.