Teams Quotes

“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
― Mickey Mantle

“Good leaders are above all that. They think of their team first before they think of themselves.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.”
― Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

“If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.”
― James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds

“Some only perceive a red and blue pill as if there are two choices. However, they are two halves not choices. Combine them and you can take the purple pill and see all sides.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“We like a workplace where employees feel a sense of autonomy to make their own choices and achieve results their way. When people have that freedom and autonomy, guided by shared values, it results in having a culture of innovation and joyfulness.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Whether you're the manager of a restaurant, a bar, a school, a construction company, an investment fund or a real estate management firm - leadership is critical to moving the business forward.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Business Leadership: The Key Elements

“But leadership can't depend on emails or written words. Leaders are not potted plants, and at all levels they must be constantly out at the critical points doing whatever is required to keep their teams energized, especially when everyone is exhausted.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

“When I grow up it is my dream,
to play baseball for my favorite team...


From "Baseball," Celebrate The Seasons”
― Suzy Davies, Celebrate The Seasons

“Friends would hear our plans and say, ‘Oh, we tried camping ten years ago. It was pouring ran, we got soaked, and we’ve never gone back. It was a disaster.’ We felt like they were asking the wrong question; they’d based their evaluation on whether or not the weekend was comfortable. From that perspective, the poor weather and planning certainly made it a disaster. But if they were to instead ask themselves, Was this weekend a moment in our best story? Then the fact that they were still talking about the experience ten years later indicated that it had the type of disruptive potential that all good stories are made of.”
― Ben Crawford, 2,000 Miles Together: The Story of the Largest Family to Hike the Appalachian Trail

“If you respect their preparation, you never drop the baton.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“You need long meetings only when you don't trust your team, or are less experienced than your players and want to learn from them.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“It is not tough to fight against giant companies whose people don't talk to each other. Just ace team play.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Do you build a team or assemble a team?”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“To build a fire, you need more wood.
To build a team, you need more people.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Having regular check-ins to align direction is super powerful, the ability to tune and adjust reduces waste and deviation and realignment.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“The professional astronomy management teams were notable for their silence regarding the long term health issues they had observed in their summit workers.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“Organisations and teams can only be as amazing as the Human Beings that are part of them.”
― Pedro Gaspar Fernandes

“If you aren't hiring, the only way for your business to grow is for your people to grow.”
― Fresia Jackson

“When life throws you lemons... throw them back!”
― Shirita Nash, The Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Handbook: Practical Tools for Growth, Connection, and Leadership for Everyone

“Knowing yourself gives you the foundation, but it’s what you do with that knowledge that makes all the difference.”
― Shirita Nash, The Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Handbook: Practical Tools for Growth, Connection, and Leadership for Everyone

“Teams should be motivated enough to want to deliver the very best service, every single day”
― David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money

“There is value in cross-industry collaboration for operational success. Diverse teams outperform individuals in decision making every time”
― David Sikhosana, Change and Power

“Collective potential doesn't live in titles or talent, it lives in the space between us, and trust is the spark that sets it on fire.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“Strong teams aren’t built on titles or tasks, they are built on trust, and trust starts with good communication.”
― Giuseppe Sanfilippo

“Stars win headlines—teams win championships.”
― Farshad Asl

“Getting the team to a good state is not a milestone by itself that I care about.”
― Mark Zuckerberg

“Leadership doesn’t have to be heroic, especially in a changing world”
― Tim Kloppenborg & Kam Jugdev

“Competent managers must accurately read the situational and follower factors affecting their teams and remain vigilant for changes.”
― Richard L. Hughes Robert C. Ginnett Gordy J. Curphy, Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience by Hughes Richard L. Ginnett Robert C. Gannett Robert C. (1998-10-15) Hardcover