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Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
Sep 24, 2025
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Light is the task where many share the toil.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
One man cannot make a team.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
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.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.