1.“A team is like a family, and sometimes you just want to strangle your little brother.”
2.“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
3.“A good team is like a casserole, only those close to you know what goes into it.”
4.“I love teamwork. I love the idea of everyone rallying together to help me win.”
5.“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
6.“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to a team.”
7.“The most important aspect of a team is trust. If a team can’t trust each other, it will never be successful.”
8.“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
9.“The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers.”
10.“It is amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.”
11.“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”
12.“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.”
13.“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”
14.“The cornerstone of a great team is trust, without it, no amount of talent or skill can compensate.”
15.“The best teams have trust. They trust in each other and they trust in their coaches.”
16.“Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own personal interests for the good of the team.”
17.“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy — both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
18.“There is no limit to what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.”
19.“The most effective leaders are those who have the courage to challenge their own beliefs and assumptions.”
20.“When a team works together, it’s like a well-oiled machine, just with a lot more yelling and confusion.”
21.“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
22.“Unity is strength … when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
23.“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
24.“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
25.“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
26.“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”
27.“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
28.“Success is the result of focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
29.“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
30.“The best leaders are those who can also be followers. They are people who understand that the group is greater than the individual.”
31.“Together, we’re like a group of superheroes, just without the superpowers or the cool costumes.”
32.“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
33.“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
34.“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
35.“Successful people are not afraid of failure. They know failure is just a step towards success.”
36.“A team is only as good as its weakest player, unless that player is Chandler Bing.”
37.“The best teams are made up of a collection of people who complement each other and work together to achieve a common goal.”
38.“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
39.“Camaraderie doesn’t happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.”
40.“When people are working together, they don’t need to be told what to do. They know what needs to be done.”
41.“The mark of a great team is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to handle conflict by focusing on common goals.”
42.“I have failed again and again throughout my life. And that is why I succeed.”
43.“Accountability separates the wishers in life from the action-takers that care enough to see things through to completion.”
44.“Together, we’re like a well-oiled machine… as long as no one puts in the wrong oil.”
45.“It’s not the will to win that matters — everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
46.“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
47.“We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people’s feet to the fire.”
48.“Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.”
49.“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
50.“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.”
51.“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.”
52.“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”
53.“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
54.“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
55.“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
56.“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”
57.“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
58.“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
59.“Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people, based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.”
60.“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
61.“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
62.“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
63.“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
64.“If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.”
65.“Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.”
66.“Alone we can do so little, but together we can order a large pizza with extra toppings.”
67.“Leadership is not about being in control. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.”
68.“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.”
69.“The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.”
70.“The most important thing about leadership is that it transforms ordinary people into great people.”
71.“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than you found it.”
72.“The most important measure of how good a game I’d played or how good a practice I’d had was what I did in the last five minutes of the game or the last twenty minutes of the practice. Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
73.“The great leaders are like the best conductors — they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. They listen with their eyes and their ears, with every fiber of their being. The best conductors are those who reach into their own hearts and give something of themselves that they can never get back. They create a special blend of sound and silence, of perfection and humanity. It’s a delicate balance, one that requires not only great skill, but great love.”