Henry Ford’s quote, “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself,” is one of my personal favorite quotes on teamwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because it’s true: Teamwork has the incredible power to increase productivity, job satisfaction, and even each person’s individual performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To inspire your team to band together and celebrate collaboration, we’ve gathered some of our favorite quotes on the power of teamwork. Check out the full list of inspirational quotes below,\u00a0 including some remarks about hard work to keep your collaborative juices flowing.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” \u2013 Helen Keller 1.<\/strong> “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” \u2013 Helen Keller (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” \u2013 Henry Ford (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” \u2013 Oliver Wendell Holmes (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” \u2013 Isaac Newton (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” \u2013 H.E. Luccock (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 6.<\/strong> “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.” \u2013 Andrew Carnegie (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>7.<\/strong> “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” \u2013 Charles Darwin (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 8.<\/strong> “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” \u2013 Henry Ford (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 9.<\/strong> “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” \u2013 Michael Jordan (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 10. <\/span>“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” \u2013 Phil Jackson (<\/em><\/span>Click to Tweet!<\/a><\/em><\/strong>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 11.<\/strong> “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” \u2013 James Cash Penney (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 12.<\/strong> “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” \u2013 Edwin Land (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 13.<\/strong> “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” \u2013 Amy Poehler (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 14.<\/strong> “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” \u2013 Simon Mainwaring (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Want more? Read about Fun Corporate Team-Building Activities & Outing Ideas Everyone Will Enjoy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong>15.<\/strong> “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” \u2013 Patrick Lencioni (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 16.<\/strong> “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.” \u2013 Jim Stovall (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 17.<\/strong> “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\u2019t play together, the club won\u2019t be worth a dime.” \u2013 Babe Ruth (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 18.<\/strong> “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” \u2013 George Shinn (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 19.<\/strong> “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” \u2013Napolean Hill (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 20.<\/strong> “The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” \u2013 Kurt Koffka (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 21.<\/strong> “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” \u2013 Norman Shidle (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong>22.<\/strong> “The ratio of We\u2019s to I\u2019s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” \u2013 Lewis B. Ergen (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 23.<\/strong> “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” \u2013 Vince Lombardi (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 24.<\/strong> “One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.” \u2013 Jin Kwon (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 25.<\/span> “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you\u2019re playing a solo game, you\u2019ll always lose out to a team.” \u2013 Reid Hoffman (<\/em><\/span>Click to<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Tweet!<\/a><\/em>)<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 26.<\/strong> “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” \u2013 Mark Twain (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 27.<\/strong> “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” \u2013 Booker T. Washington (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 28.<\/strong> “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” \u2013 Steve Jobs (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 29.<\/strong> “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” \u2013 Ryunosuke Satoro (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong>30.<\/strong> “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” \u2013 Virginia Burden (Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 31.<\/strong> “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” \u2013 Mother Teresa (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 32.<\/strong> “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” \u2013 Harry Truman (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 33.<\/strong> “It takes two flints to make a fire.” \u2013 Louisa May Alcott (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 34.<\/strong> “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” \u2013 Iyanla Vanzant (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 35.<\/strong> “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” \u2013 African Proverb (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 36.<\/strong> “Success is best when it’s shared.” \u2013 Howard Schultz (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Need help collaborating effectively? Take a look at<\/span> 21 Marketing Collaboration Tools to Improve Productivity and Teamwork<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n 37.<\/strong> “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” \u2013 Tim Notke (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 38.<\/strong> “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” \u2013 Ariana Huffington (<\/em>Click to Tweet!<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nQuotes About Collaboration<\/h2>\n
\n “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” \u2013 Michael Jordan
\n “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” \u2013 Patrick Lencioni
\n “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” \u2013 Napolean Hill
\n “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” \u2013 Booker T. Washington
\n “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” \u2013 Mother Teresa <\/p>\n<\/div>\nTeamwork Quotes to Inspire Collaboration<\/h2>\n
Hard Work Quotes to Inspire Determination<\/h2>\n