teamwork quotes

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

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.

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

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

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

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

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.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

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.

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

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

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.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

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

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.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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.

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

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

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

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

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

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

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

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

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.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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.

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.

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

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

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.

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.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

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

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

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.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘