Teamwork Quotes

Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

It's very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.

They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.

Success is about growing together.

I know of no single formula for success, but over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal, and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration, to work together.

The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it has the wholehearted cooperation of all on board, it can be safely brought to port.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

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

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

When I saw Jet.com, I saw a strong team.

Together, we're building a new Walmart. We're going to make shopping with us faster, easier and more enjoyable. We'll do more than just save customers money and you, our associates, will make the difference.

Like people, when companies work to foster a culture of collaboration, communication becomes second nature.

When I joined Walmart, I just had a team mindset, but I look back on it now, and I realize some of those early jobs I had, I was trying to help other people and rally the team. It ended up people started looking at me as a leader.

You can compare the retail business to basketball. You have to have a plan, you have to hustle, you have to rely on each other, and there's a scoreboard on the wall.

The thing that's been consistent is that this is a team sport and nothing happens through the work of just an individual. We all do this together and it doesn't matter whether you're going to do a startup or you're at a big company, that's going to be the case. And what sport taught me was the importance of that and how to treat a teammate, and how to work together.