Teamwork & Collaboration Quotes

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

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

At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos.

Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.

On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

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

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

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

By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.

As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

A shared experience can energize a team toward its common goal more quickly than a direct order ever will.

When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.

Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, collaboration tools are becoming increasingly affordable, allowing even the smallest firms to implement enterprise-grade solutions that can significantly improve communication lines between employees and customers.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

I like to work in a team. And for that you must have a structure that covers everything and that there is fluid communication.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

On or off the field, practice and teamwork are the key to success.

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

With any sort of major change we need to make in our lives, it's much easier to do it with other people. We succeed and thrive best when we work together and support each other. When we struggle alone, that's when the struggle can seem impossible.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.