QUOTES ON TEAM BUILDING

1. The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. (Lee Iacocca)
2. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is
success. (Henry Ford)
3. Teamwork makes the dream work. (Bang Gae)
4. The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team. (Phil
Jackson)
5. Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)
6. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
(Socrates)
7. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking
your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the
first one. (Mark Twain)
8. Gossip, jealousy, suspicion, and resentment are the most destructive ways that we look at
each other; such negativity only serves to fracture our personal power. (Ancient
Teachings)
9. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become
just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by
performing brave actions. (Aristotle)
10. In union there is strength. (Aesop)
11. All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from
other people. (Alexis Carrel)
12. No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. (Althea Gibson)
13. People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against
them. (Dr. Allan Fromme)
14. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy
their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a
common goal and help one another achieve it. (Bill Bradley)
15. Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company
work, a society work, a civilization work. (Vince Lombardi)
16. Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to
overcome our need for invulnerability. (Patrick Lencioni)
17. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. (Henry Ford)
18. Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
(Mike Schmoker)
19. It takes two flints to make a fire. (Louisa May Alcott)
20. A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take. (Barbara
Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.)
21. Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. (Casey Stengel)
22. If you can laugh together, you can work together. (Robert Orben)
23. A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. (Proverb)
24. A leader must inspire or his team will expire (Orrin Woodward)

25. It is amazing how much people get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
(Swahili Proverb)
26. We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin
Franklin)