Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Lombardi

I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

Vince Lombardi

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Vince Lombardi

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Vince Lombardi

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

Wangari Maathai

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Wangari Maathai

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Wayne Gretzky

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

Stephenie Meyer

Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.

Ronald Reagan

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

Ruth Riley

We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

Steve Jobs

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Steve Jobs

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Mother Teresa

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

Mike Krzyzewski

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

Peter Bondra

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Pele

No individual can win a game by himself.

Pele

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Peter Senge

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

Peter Senge

Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.

Ted Koppel

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Leonard Maltin

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

Steve Stivers

The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get things done. It also taught me that everyone brings a different perspective, whether I agree with it or not, which helps me bridge the divide in Congress.

Thomas A. Edison

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Tom Vilsack

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

Tom Peters

Rewards should go to teams as a whole.

Tom Peters

Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.

Tom Peters

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

Steve Sheinkin

In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight. And, like it or not, you're in it.

Stephen Covey

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Stephen Covey

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.