Quotes About Teamwork

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we're embarrassed because that's not the way we want to play soccer.

Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.

organizations are made up of people. If this should seem obvious, the implications of acknowledging it are not.

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.

As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful. Find ways to play . We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves. Stay focused in order to be present when your customers and team mebers most need you. And should you feel your enegery lapsing, try this surefire remedy: Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear - and make their day .

As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful. Find ways to play. We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves. Stay focused in order to be there when your customers and team members most need you. And should you feel your energy lapsing, try this surefire remedy: Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear—and make their day.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

I love it when a plan comes together! - Hannibal Smith, A-Team

The first job of a leader—at work or at home—is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Take it from me, local government offices are mostly about flexi-time and cake. Cake comes in for birthdays, for house moves, for news of engagements, births, weddings, christenings, driving tests, kids making the cross-country team or passing grade one piano. There is no news too small that it can't be celebrated with chocolate brownies for the whole office.

It wasn't Amundsen's job to make his men happy, but to lead them to victory, alive.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

To allow others to shine, stand in the shade ...

No successful business is run through thought. It requires people who work.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Annette says that if you want your husband to help you shop, giving him an electronic toy like a walkie-talkie is a great way to get him to "play.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.