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Quotations on Teamwork


	"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller



	"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." Oliver Wendell Holmes



	"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." Henry Ford



	"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



	"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." H.E. Luccock



	"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." Henry Ford



	"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



	"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." Michael Jordan



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



	"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." Napolean Hill



	"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 B. Ergen


	"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 Poehler



	"Politeness is the poison of collaboration." Edwin Land



	"Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus." Simon Mainwaring



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



	"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 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



	"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others." George Shinn



	"The whole is other than the sum of the parts." Kurt Koffka



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