Quotes on Teamwork

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.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded 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).

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

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

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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

I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

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.