Best Team Building Quotes
Quotations about team building to get you thinking – and make you laugh
Here is a selection of the best quotations about team building, teamwork and working together people have sent us. Please feel free to add your own in “Leave a reply” below- bottles of champagne for the best!
LET’S GET CYNICAL
“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.”
Michael Winner
“We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right.”
Brian Clough
Bonding
James Bond: Oh, I suppose you’re right. We would be better off working together. Détente?
Holly Goodhead: Agreed.
Bond: Understanding?
Goodhead: Possibly.
Bond: Co-operation?
Goodhead: Maybe.
Bond: Trust?
Goodhead: Out of the question.
From Moonraker
“Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.”
Theodore Roosevelt
POSITIVE TEAM BUILDING QUOTES
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
John Ruskin
One step ahead
“Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.”
Mia Hamm
“There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren’t willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
Michael Jordan
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Henry Ford
DEFENSIVE TEAM BUILDING QUOTES
“You don’t become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.”
Frank Lampard
DELUSIONAL TEAM BUILDING QUOTES
“I’m portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we’re working together for a higher good.”
Demi Moore
I like this one by Victorian John Ruskin: “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
And this one: “No man is wise enough by himself.” – Plautus
“Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.” Confucius