62 Teamwork Quotes to inspire collaboration
Teamwork has been demonstrated to increase productivity, improve communication, expedite idea generation, distribute workload, and establish a culture in which each employee feels a sense of belonging and empowerment. Here are the best teamwork quotes to inspire collaboration.
T – Together
E – Each
A – Achieves
M – More
Teamwork Quotes
- “In team diversified people contribute with their individual ideas, making impossible a possible task.” – Invajy
- “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
- “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
- “Effective teamwork is the collaboration; where same vision, values, and goals drive the team members.” – Invajy
- “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
- “When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”– Russel Honore
- “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.”– Marissa Mayer
- “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
- “You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”– Jim Stovall
- “Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.”– Cameron Russell
Quotes about Teamwork
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
- “Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.”– Becka Schoettle
- “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.”– Jean-Francois Cope
- “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”– George Shinn
- “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
- “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
- “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.”– Norman Shidle
- “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” – Lewis Ergen
- “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”– Mark Twain
- “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Teamwork Quote
- “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
- “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”– Patrick Lencioni
- “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”– John D. Rockefeller
- “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. “– John Wooden
- “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
- “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
- “I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.”– Alain de Botton
- “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”– Reid Hoffman
Teamwork Quotes to Inspire Collaboration
- “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”– Henry Ford
- “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”– James Cash Penney
- “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”– Amy Poelher
- “Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.”– Vaclav Smil
- “The whole is other than the sum of the parts.”– Kurt Koffka
- “Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals.” – Byron Pulsifer
- “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”– Reid Hoffman
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”– Booker T. Washington
- “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”– Charles Darwin
- “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”– Virginia Burden
Inspiring Short Quotes about Teamwork
- “Success is best when it’s shared.”– Howard Schulz
- “A leader must inspire or his team will expire” – Orrin Woodward
- “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”– Simon Mainwaring
- “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”– Phil Jackson
- “Teamwork endow with great learning opportunities.” – Invajy
- “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” – Patrick Lencioni
- “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”– Warren Buffet
- “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”– Mike Krzyzewski
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan
Teamwork 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
- “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.”– Edwin Land
- “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”– Iyanla Vanzant
- “Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.”– Mike Schmoker
- “Bad attitudes will ruin your team.” – Terry Bradshaw
- “Teamwork makes the dream work.” – Bang Gae
- “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Mathew Woodring Strover
- “A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.” – Jacqueline Novogratz
- “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
- “One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.”– Jin Kwon
- “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”– Mattie Stepanek
- “If you can laugh together, you can work together.”– Robert Orben