teamwork quotes

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

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

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

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

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

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

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

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.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

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.

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

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

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

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

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

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

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

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.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

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

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.

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.

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

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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.

It’s nice when little teams win.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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

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.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.