Our world today is not made by a single person, but rather billions of people work together and allow us to live in between. It’s hard to imagine how our world becomes looks like this, but the answer is simple; humans are a teamwork being. By working together, we can achieve something we couldn’t do it alone.
If you are a leader of a team or wanted to create a brand new team, these wise sayings would help you. Here are 70 best quotes about teamwork to motivate your employees or team member.
Teamwork Quotes for Employees
Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– Helen Keller
A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.
– Simon Sinek
Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
– Vince Lombardi
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.
– Patrick Lencioni
None of us is as smart as all of us.
– Ken Blanchard
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
– Doug Conant
Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
– Patrick Lencioni
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
– Michael Jordan
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
– Steve Jobs
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
– Brian Tracy
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
– Simon Sinek
Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
– Justin Sewell
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
– Henry Ford
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.
– Norman Shidle
In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.
– Mark Sanborn
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.
– Kris A. Hiatt
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
– Henry Ford
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
– Sandra Swinney
If you can laugh together, you can work together,
– Robert Orben
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
– Stephen R. Covey
Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.
– Israelmore Ayivor
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
– Phil Jackson
I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
– Lee Lacocca
Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
– Patrick Lencioni
Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
– Zig Ziglar
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
– Tom Bouchard
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.
– Mike Schmoker
One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.
– Jin Kwon
It takes two flints to make a fire.
– Louisa May Alcott
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
– George Shinn
Some companies don’t have an engagement problem, they have a hiring problem.
– Bob Kelleher
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
– Mia Hamm
Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
– Mattie Stepanek
You put together the best team that you can with the players you’ve got, and replace those who aren’t good enough.
– Robert Crandall
There’s nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
– Billy Martin
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
– Thomas Edison
Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.
– Tom Wilson
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
– Mike Krzyzewski
You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
– Mahatma Gandhi
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
– Reid Hoffman
If you don’t give people a chance to fail, you won’t innovate. If you want to be an innovative company, allow people to make mistakes.
– Indra Nooyi
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
– Simon Sinek
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
– Russel Honore
The only way to do great work is to love what you do..
– Steve Jobs
Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than the right idea.
– Ed Catmull
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
– Bahá’u’lláh
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
– Lewis B Ergen
It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.
– Anonymous
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
– Napoleon Hill
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
– Margaret Carty
In business, nothing great can be done by one person alone (typically) but, with a team, great things can happen.
– Steven E Dunlop
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
– John Bardeen
Nobody’s going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
– Jamais Cascio
I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.
– Mother Teresa
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.
– Ifeanyi Onuoha
Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.
– John C. Maxwell
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
– John Maxwell
A leader must inspire or his team will expire.
– Orrin Woodward
You don’t build a business, you build people and then people build the business.
– Zig Ziglar
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
– Jack Ma
Whenever ideas are shared, the result is always greater than the sum of the parts.
– Rich Willis
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
– African Proverb
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
– Vince Lombardi
Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
– Doug Smith
Great things are done by a series of small things that are brought together.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Sometimes being on a team means being humble and putting others first. It has to be about the team and not the individual.
– Maggie White
Trust your team. Let others do their work so that you may concentrate wholly on doing your own.
– Gene King
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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