Quotes About Teamwork

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

My brave fellows, you have done all what I asked you to, and more than could be reasonably expected.

At Ogilvy & Mather, founder David Mather established the practice of sending each new branch head a nested set of wooden dolls—each doll opens to reveal a smaller replica of the doll. Inside the smallest is a message: "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, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants."1

Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.

When people who are driven by a vision see something wrong, they might say to their teammates, "I feel bad because we're not building the kind of system we can be proud of. What shall we do so we don't feel this way?" On

If your whole team consists of novice programmers, your expertise will give you considerable power; but if the other team members are also experts, they will attach less importance to your technical expertise. In that case, they'll pay more attention to organizational power, like the power to acquire extra hardware, to extend the schedule, or to capture a more interesting assignment.

If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse

In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten."

The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

It is not the guns or armament Or the money they can pay, It's the close co-operation That makes them win the day. It is not the individual Or the army as a whole, But the everlastin' teamwork Of every bloomin' soul.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.