Quotes About Teamwork

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

Great leaders not only treat people with respect and dignity, they hold others accountable for doing the same.

We're going to need a bigger boat.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.

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Look how you figured that out together. You made a plan, you listened to each other, you made a diagram … I don't think you would have figured it out without doing that.

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

Jack didn't want to throw shadow onto the trip; there was nothing worse on any expedition than a naysayer.

And if there's one thing I've always been sure of, it's that Batman will need a Robin, and Robin will need a Batman.

When Mosesí hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one on each side, so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.

Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

Moreover, I have selected Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, as his assistant. I have also given skill to all the craftsmen, that they may fashion all that I have commanded you:

I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.

But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.

So Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer behind him. And the Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and finished them off.

In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men over half an acre of land.

So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind

because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.