If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.