Your best product is your people. Delivering great work to your clients depends on the team that helps you get there. It’s your job to keep them inspired and engaged. Luckily, there have been many great, famous leaders before us from whom we can borrow inspiration. Make a resolution to kick off your Monday meetings with one of these inspirational teamwork quotes each week of year.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. — Florence Nightingale
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. — Zig Ziglar
It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. — Pete Seeger
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. — Steve Jobs
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. — Doug Floyd
In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly. — Mark Sanborn
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. — Mary Kay Ash
If you try and we lose, then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault. — Orson Scott Card
There is little success where there is little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues. — Lee Iacocca
It takes two flints to make a fire. — Louisa May Alcott
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. — Henry Ford
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. — Michael Jordan
Don’t stay in bed. Unless you can make money in bed. — George Burns
People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.—Ken Hakuta
The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.— Margaret Carty
The greatest danger a team faces isn’t that it won’t become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve. — Mark Sanborn
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. — JC Penny
I love teamwork. I love the idea of everyone rallying together to help me win. — Jarod Kintz
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. — John Wooden
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.— Thomas Jefferson
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. — Helen Keller
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.— Dwight Eisenhower
Disruption isn’t about what happens to you. It’s about how you respond to what happens to you. — Jay Samit
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. — Samuel Goldwyn
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats — Howard Aiken
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.— Abraham Lincoln
If at first you don’t succeed, you are running at about average. — MH Alderson
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people. — Mohandas Ghandi
There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals. — Idowu Koyenikan
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees mud, and one sees the stars.— Frederick Langbridge
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. — Babe Ruth
You can’t build an adaptable organization without adaptable people, and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to. — Gary Hamel
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. — TS Eliot
Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them that’s the mark of a great player. — Alice Cooper
You never become a howling success just by howling. — Bob Harrington
Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy Creating. — M.F. Ryan
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. —Yogi Berra
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.— Phil Jackson
A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken! — Bonnie Edelstein
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. — Vidal Sassoon
Men have never been individually self-sufficient. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. — Kakuzo Okakaura
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
If at first you don’t succeed, take the tax loss. — Kirk Kirkpatrick
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. — Oscar Wilde
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.— Lewis B. Ergen
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind. — Joseph Stilwell
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