Quotes About Teamwork

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace -- I'd play anywhere.

Shake hands, kids," Jack said. "Remember, humble in victory, gracious in defeat." He grinned up at her. "I feel very humble, don't you?

It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.

Maybe coming together as a team meant they could rely on one another to help out when things weren't going the way they'd planned, to share roles and responsibilities.

I'm so lucky to have you, Leni," Mama said, trying to organize her cards with one hand. "We're a team," Leni said. "Peas in a pod." "Two of a kind." Words they said all the time to each other; words that felt a little hollow now. Maybe even sad.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Alignment and collaboration need not be fuzzy, ill-defined concepts for "let's just all get along." Effective teamwork is more than good manners and good will, although both help an organization function more effectively. Alignment results from shared goals. Collaboration results from shared measures of success.

Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a group is only as strong as its weakest member.

Knowing how to manage conflict is a vital skill for nurses.

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

When you look back, recap this whole season it's just some detail-oriented things that we kind of got to fix. We're right there. I believe we're right as a team, as a unit, the guys we have on this team, we're right there. I'm a big believer in that. I'm very confident.

The biggest lesson was that if you were clear about what you wanted as leaders and then let people give it to you without tying their hands behind their backs, you got it.

They were ants saying, "Hey can we help you hold up this huge building that's toppling onto you?

Andrew Carnegie once said, "I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.

Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.

Edison was not a loner. For the invention of the lightbulb, he had thirty assistants, including well-trained scientists, often working around the clock in a corporate-funded state-of-the-art laboratory!

I've noticed and interesting thing. When some star players are interviewed after a game, they say we , they are part of the team and they think of themselves that way. When others are interviewed, they say I and they refer to their teammates as something apart from themselves - as people who are privileged to participate in their greatness.

Ahora la forma establecida de fomentar la productividad era por medio de la orientación, no por medio del terror. Premiaba el trabajo de equipo más que

There are coaches out there," Wooden says, "who have won championships with the dictator approach, among them Vince Lombardi and Bobby Knight. I had a different philosophy.… For me, concern, compassion, and consideration were always priorities of the highest order." Read

Hierarchy means very little to me. Let's put together in meetings the people who can help solve a problem, regardless of position.

Create ways to foster alternative view and constructive criticism. Assign people to play the devils advocate, taking opposing viewpoints so you can see the holes in your position. Get people to wage debates that argue different sides of the issue. Have an anonymous suggestion box that employees must contribute to as part of the decision-making proces. Remember, people can be independent thinkers and team players at the same time, help them fill both roles.

There are many myths about ability and achievement, especially about the lone, brilliant person suddenly producing amazing things. Yet Darwin's masterwork, The Origin of Species, took years of teamwork in the field, hundreds of discussions with colleagues and mentors, several preliminary drafts, and half a lifetime of dedication before it reached fruition.

Everyone knows that the people in the marriage are the ones responsible for the marriage, everyone except married people...

But isn't it why you get married in the first place? So that someone can row the boat when you're tired.