Teamwork Quotes and Collaboration Quotes Related to Decision Making

"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind has adopted it." - Novalis (1772 - 1801), German Author and Philosopher

"The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is." - Gerhard Gschwandtner (1942 - ), American Businessman, President and CEO for Personal Selling Power, Inc.

"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955), French Philosopher

"The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together." - Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970), Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration." - Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991), American scientist and Inventor, Co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." - Michael Jordan (1963 - ), Retired American Professional Basketball Player

"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community." - Kenneth G. Wilson (1936 - ), American Theoretical Physicist

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." - Mattie Stepanek (1990 - 2004), American Teenage Poet

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." - James Cash Penney (1875 - 1971) Businessman and Entrepreneur, Founder of the J.C. Penney Company

"We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems." - John Rollwagen, Former Chairman and CEO of Cray Research, Inc

"Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback." - Pat Riley (1945 - ), Former American Basketball Player and Coach

"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." - Robert B. Reich (1946 - ), American Politician and Writer

"A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate." - Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - 2007), American Writer

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality." - Joe Paterno (1926 - ), American College Football Coach

"When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb." - Pat Riley (1945 - ), Former American Basketball Player and Coach

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947 - ), American Retired NBA Basketball Player

"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team." - Bud Wilkinson (1916 - 1994), American Football Player and Coach

"Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position." - Douglas Murray McGregor (1906 - 1964), Management Pioneer

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team." - Lee Iacocca (1924 - ), American businessman, President and CEO of Chrysler Corporation from 1978 to 1992

"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. " - W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993), American Statistician and Author

"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970), Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team." - Benjamin F. Fairless (1890 - 1962), American Industrialist and Past-president of U.S. Steel

"When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you." - Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Former Major League Baseball Player and Manager

"To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise." - Mitchell Caplan, American Businessman

"TEAM --- Together Everyone Achieves More." - Author Unknown