Quotes About Teamwork

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

When you got people behind you, you can do whatever.

Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Every great business is built on friendship.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.

The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.