50 Team Building Quotes to Inspire Great Teamwork

Good teamwork is the keystone to a successful business and it should never be taken for granted. Achieving great things is rarely possible without a good set of humans behind. 

When you have a committed and engaged team, creativity flows, teams move faster and success is almost guaranteed. It’s important to learn how to drive good collaboration, and we at Hirebook know that quite well, so we decided to compile the best teamwork quotes that have inspired us through our journey.

1. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

2. "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." – Henry Ford

    

3. “None of us is as smart as all of us” – Ken Blanchard

4. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – Halford E. Luccock

5. "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." – Helen Keller

6. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." – Napoleon Hill

7. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan

8. "Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." – Amy Poehler

9. "The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team." – Lewis B. Ergen

10. “The greatest asset of a company is its people.” – Jorge Paulo Lemann 

    

11. "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." – Mark Twain

12. “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin

13. “A leader must inspire or his team will expire.” – Orrin Woodward

14. “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John Rockefeller

15. "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." – Phil Jackson

16. "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." – Andrew Carnegie

17. "Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." – Vince Lombardi

18. “To win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant 

    

19. “Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” – Becka Schoettle

20. "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." – Oliver Wendell Holmes

21. "There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others." – George Shinn

22. "No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team." – Reid Hoffman 

23. "Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." – Steve Jobs

24. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro

25. “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.” – Mother Teresa

26. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

27. “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” – Mike Krzyzewski

28. “The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try to do everything yourself, because you can’t.” – Anthea Turner 

    

29. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

30. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb

31. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman

32. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

33. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” – Will Rogers

34. “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

35. “Without teamwork, there is no way that the company is going to experience success. In teams, individuals will work together and accomplish a lot more than what they do by themselves.” – Michael Welton

36. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” – John C. Maxwell

37. “Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.” – Max McKeown

38. “The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” — Margaret Carty

39. “A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” – Chuck Page

40. “The key thing is really aligning everybody so they all understand where you’re going.” —  Eytan Lenko 

    

41. “I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” – Mia Hamm 

42. “Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.” – Midrash

43. “A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.” – Jacqueline Novogratz

44. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney 

45. "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." – Malcolm Forbes

46. “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek

47. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” – Jean-Francois Cope

48. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

49. “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” – Simon Mainwaring

50. “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." – Jim Stovall 

You can always do better when teamwork is effective. We hope these quotes help you motivate your team as they have motivated us!