Quotations About Team Building, Teamwork and Teams

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

"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

"It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit." --Sandra Swinney

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team." --Lee Iacocca

"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

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." --Michael Jordan

"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living.


They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together." --Henry Ford

"He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." --Confucius

"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

"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

"The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals." --Rensis Likert

"I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game." --Tom Landry

Integrity

From Susan M. Heathfield,

Honesty, Integrity and Truthfulness

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” --Douglas Adams

”Integrity has no need of rules.” --Albert Camus

”Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” --Mary Kay Ash

”Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.” --Oprah Winfrey

”The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

”A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.” --Denis Waitley

”The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forever more.'" --Ralph Waldo Emerson

”Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” --Thomas Jefferson

” In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson

”The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” --Brian Tracy

”Integrity is the first step to true greatness.


Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.” --Charles Simmons

”Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” —Walter Anderson

”Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.” --John D. MacDonald

”Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” --Ayn Rand