Quotes About Teamwork

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

A good leader makes a good follower.

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Find the right people, not the best people.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.