Quotes About Teamwork

This is a football.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together.

Veja você, o que reconforta é não ter que correr sempre só com nossos pensamentos e nossas ideias, mas colaborar e trabalhar com um grupo. E assim também somos capazes de muito mais, e somos infinitamente mais felizes.

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

Divided responsibility means that nobody is responsible.

To manage, one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.

Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody's job.

A new president came, talked with the head of sales, design, manufacturing, consumer research, and so forth. Everybody was doing a superb job, and had been doing so for years. Nobody had any problems. Yet somehow or other the company was going down the tube. Why? The answer was simple. Each staff area was sub-optimizing its own work, but not working as a team for the company.

Blame the process, not the people.

Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win.

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.