Leadership & Management: Team Building Quotes

Discover a curated collection of team building quotes designed to strengthen collaboration, trust, and shared purpose. These insights highlight the value of clear communication, mutual accountability, and leveraging diverse strengths to achieve common goals. Leaders and managers will find concise reminders to align teams, navigate conflict constructively, and foster a culture where everyone contributes. Use these quotes to spark discussion, set intentions for workshops, or energize daily stand-ups, helping teams build momentum, resilience, and a sense of belonging.

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"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

Mary Kay Ash

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

David Ogilvy

"If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

Mary Kay Ash

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"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, Coach

Tony Dungy

"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better"

Mark Shields, Journalist

Mark Shields

"I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers"

Steven Berkoff, Actor

Steven Berkoff

"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other"

Simon Sinek, Writer

Simon Sinek

"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together"

Robert South, Clergyman

Robert South

"Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"Get the best people and train them well"

Scott McNealy, Businessman

Scott McNealy

"We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise"

Catherine McAuley, Clergyman

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity"

Tom Peters, Businessman

Tom Peters

"We are all the President's men"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

Henry A. Kissinger

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet"

Chris Brown, Musician

Chris Brown

"If you can laugh together, you can work together"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone"

Harold Ramis, Actor

Harold Ramis

"You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents"

Earl Weaver, Coach

"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together"

Phil Jackson, Coach

"You have to work at creating your own culture"

Mitch Albom, Writer

"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like"

Soichiro Honda, Businessman

Soichiro Honda

"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

Gro Harlem Brundtland

"I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"You cannot work with men who won't work with you"

John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman

"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves"

Richard Masur, Actor

"I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent"

Gene Krupa, Musician

"They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor"

John William McCormack, Politician

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