I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

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.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

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.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

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.

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.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

To lead people walk behind them.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

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 know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

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

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

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.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

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

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

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Our nation must come together to unite.

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.

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.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.