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TEAM QUIPS AND QUOTES
"Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."
- Mark Twain
"The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team."
- Lewis B. Ergen
"There is no 'i' in TEAMWORK."
- unknown
"In cooperative situations, others are depending on you to succeed.
In competitive situations, others hope to see you fail."
- Unknown
"The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method."
- Colin L. Powell
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
- Goethe
Teamwork makes the dream work.
It is amazing how much people get done if they don't worry about who gets the credit.
- Swahili proverb
A team should never practice on a field that is not lined. Your players have to become aware of the field's boundaries.
- Former NFL Coach John Madden
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever does."
- Margaret Mead
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
- Michael Jordan
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
- Andrew Carnegie
None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Japanese proverb
"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together."
- Vesta Kelly
"A team with a star player is a good team, but a team without one is a great team."
- Author unknown
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
- Henry Ford
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."
- Stephen Covey
"Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you."
- Paul Meyer
"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two."
- Lee Iacocca
"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.”
- Peter Drucker
"Individual commitment to a group effort...that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- Vince Lombardi
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
- John Wooden
"The one man team is a complete and total myth.”
- Don Shula
"One finger cannot lift a pebble."
- Hopi Saying
"I've never known anyone so loyal. If you are Larry Bird's teammate,
you are one of the most important people in the world to him."
- Kevin McHale
"Two heads are better than one."
- Unknown
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
- John Wooden