Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

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.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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.

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

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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

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.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

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 fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

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

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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

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.

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

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

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

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Begin with the end in mind.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

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.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

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

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

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

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.