Quotes About Teamwork

People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.

I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.

When everyone touches the ball, it gives everyone energy, and that translates to the defensive end, where it all starts.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

Hold at least one all-hands meeting every quarter and, to underscore the startup's team concept, make sure at least one additional executive joins you in leading the meeting.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

If you don't share information among your startup's team, then it'll be just about a coincidence if product, marketing, and engineering are ever aligned. Those odds are too low to succeed.

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family.

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

When I stated playing as a kid the centre-back would pass to me and I couldn't catch it.

I would never bring in a player to make a statement.

I think the thing that I learned is I will never let a staff have too much control again, which is a strong statement.

We certainly would not be here, living and working on the International Space Station without the commitment and dedication of all the folks who worked the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs as well as the Russian Space Program.

And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.

It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station.