89 Building A Team Quotes

Following is our list of building a team quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what makes a team.

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Famous Building A Team Quotes

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team. — John Doerr

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. — Ted Sundquist

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult. — Patrick Lencioni

Building a great company is all about assembling a team of people smarter than you. — Balaji Srinivasan

Building a strong team around you and being able to really communicate well with them is part of what’s going to bring you a higher level of success. — Meghan Markle

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field. — John Elway

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot

The bigger the vision you have, the more important it is for you to think on what type of a team you're going to put around you. — Patrick Bet-David

Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success. — John Kundla

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. — Patrick Lencioni

Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving. — Geoffrey Canada

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning. — John Calipari

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed. — Jose Mourinho

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other — Mike Krzyzewski

Short Building A Team Quotes

  • Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable. — Jason Kidd
  • Building strong relationships and connections with your team is essential for effective leadership. — Michael Abrashoff
  • Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. — Casey Stengel
  • Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. — Scott Adams
  • A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains — Kevin Rose
  • You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer
  • Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
  • You need the right team of inspired managers. — Bernard Arnault
  • Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this). — Patrick Lencioni

Building A Team Image Quotes

Building a team quote Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Inspiring Building A Team Quotes

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. — Simon Sinek

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

Building a team quote You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. — Patrick Lencioni

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? — Meredith Belbin

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. — Larry Gelwix

Building a team quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. — Rensis Likert

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust. — Dennis F. Kinlaw

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. — Lawrence M. Krauss

You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play. — Herb Brooks

What Makes A Team Quotes

I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about. — Christina Grimmie

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian

Building a team quote If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always. — Arsene Wenger

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources. — Colin Powell

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better. — Fran Tarkenton

Building a team quote When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.
When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you! — Joe Namath

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team. — Mark Spitz

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite. — Rachel Bloom

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information. — Andy Stanley

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More Building A Team Quotes

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. — Mother Teresa

Building a team quote If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to hel
If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.

A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. — Tom Landry

A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members. — Meredith Belbin

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. — Tom Peters

No individual can win a game by himself. — Pele

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board. — Patrick Lencioni

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team. — Tom Hicks

A single leaf working alone provides no shade. — Chuck Page

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match. — Tony Dungy

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. — Babe Ruth

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice. — Douglas B. Reeves

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another. — John C. Maxwell

I've been waiting to get back in the Miller Lite Ford since Homestead. The team at the shop have put a lot of effort into building me a fast Ford Fusion for Speedweeks. Being in the Unlimited gives us a chance to see what we've got to work with for the Daytona 500. I think both myself and Joey in the No. 22 will be fast down here. I'm ready to go. — Brad Keselowski

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. — Allan Fromme

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. — Bahá'u'lláh

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything. — Tahir Shah

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory. — Bear Bryant

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone. — Andrew Carnegie

Two heads are better than one. — Unknown Author

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. — Dean Smith

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust. — Patrick Lencioni

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues. — Lee Iacocca

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things. — Jamie Oliver

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people. — Stephen Covey

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