101 SuperQuotes

1. A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way. ― Swahili proverb
2. A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. ― Norman Shidle
3. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ― Helen Keller
4. An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. ― Stephen Covey
5. Anybody that has their own agenda that’s separate from the team’s won’t be around long. ― Bill Parcells
6. Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention. ― Sonia Rumzi
7. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8. Bad attitudes will ruin your team. ― Terry Bradshaw
9. Be the change you want to see in the world. ― Mahatma Gandhi
10. Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice. ―Douglas B. Reeves
11. Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford
12. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to down and listen. ― Winston Churchill
13. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots. ― Frank A. Clark
14. Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ― Ralph Marston
15. Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ― Abraham Lincoln
16. Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself. ― Kenneth Blanchard
17. Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility. ― Mike Krzyzewski
18. Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. ― Margaret Chase Smith
19. Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. – Lao Tzu
21. Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ― Booker T. Washington
22. Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. ― Charles A. Dana
23. Friendship ― my definition― is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble. ― Stieg Larsson
24. High expectations are the key to everything. ― Sam Walton
25. 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
26. I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect. ― Mary Balogh
27. I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self― respect. ― Mahatma Gandhi
28. I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. ― Alan Greenspan
29. I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. ― Herbert Henry Lehman
30. I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. ― John Robinson
31. I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. ― Albert Einstein
32. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
33. I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. ― Jackie Robinson
34. If employees understand the reasons behind the rules and regulations, the chances are excellent that they will respect them. ― Johnson & Johnson Co. (Employee Relations Manual 1932)
35. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. –Henry Ford
36. If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. ― Darryl F. Zanuck
37. If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. – Sylvia Path
38. If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. – John W. Gardner
39. If you respect a player and he respects you then you have a relationship and in a relationship all commentary is allowed. I can say anything to Pepper Johnson and he’ll understand where I’m coming from because of the mutual respect. ― Bill Parcells
40. In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. ― Margaret Wheatly
41. In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly. ― Mark Sanborn
42. Individual commitment to a group effort ― that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi
43. Integrity has no need of rules. ― Albert Camus
44. It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ― W. Edwards Deming
45. It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn’t, and when it does, we may well reject it. ― Spencer Tracy
46. Leadership on a team is plural, not singular. ― Mike Krzyzewski
47. Losers assemble in small groups and complain about the coaches and other players. Winners assemble as a team and find ways to win. ― Bill Parcells
48. Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ― Robert Greenleaf
49. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done. ― Peter Drucker
50. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ― Stephen Covey
51. Never let a person’s weakness get in the way of their strength. ― Mike Krzyzewski
52. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ― General George Patton, Jr.
53. No one enjoys addressing others’ deficiencies. But failure to do so sends the message that people are on track when they really aren’t. And that may be the greatest disservice a leader can do to someone else. ― Eric Harvey
54. No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another. – Yao Ming
55. Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them towards a certain goal. ― Walt Disney
56. One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ― Bryant H. McGill
57. People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. ― H. Ross Perot
58. People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. ― John C. Maxwell
59. Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues. ― Cary Grant
60. Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. ― Patrick Lencioni
61. Respect a man, and he will do all the more. – John Wooden
62. Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. ― Laurence Sterne
63. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. ― Bill Bradley
64. Respect yourself and others will respect you. ― Confucius
65. Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
66. Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. – John Akers
67. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means. – Albert Einstein
68. Team cooperation increases commensurate with increase in trust. ― Mike Krzyzewski
69. Technology – the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. ― Max Frisch
70. The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he/she wants done, and self― restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ― Theodore Roosevelt
71. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. ― Ernest Hemingway
72. The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. ― Rensis Likert
73. The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done ― Peter Drucker
74. The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. — John Wooden
75. The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. ― Ralph Nichols
76. The principles you live by create the world you live in. – Blaine Lee
77. The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant. – Stephen Covey
78. The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
79. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. ― Phil Jackson
80. The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ― Norman Vincent Peale
81. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ― Samuel Johnson
82. The worst thing that can happen to a player [from a player’s perspective] is for him not to know what the coach is really thinking about him. ― Bill Parcells
83. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
84. There are two things people want more than sex and money – recognition and praise. ― Mary Kay Ash
85. Truly great leaders spend as much time collecting and acting upon feedback as they do providing it. ― Alexander Lucia
86. Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first. – Irwin Federman
87. Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team. ― Patrick Lencioni
88. Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ― Stephen Covey
89. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
90. We are only as effective as our people’s perception of us. ― Danny Cox
91. What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise ― although the philosophers generally call it ‘recognition’! — William James
92. What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you. ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
93. When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ― Pat Riley
94. When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. ― Corrie Ten Boom
95. When he was invited to preseason minicamp before preseason training, Parcells had asked him to drop by the office to talk. “Tell me about yourself,” the coach had said. “Well I played special teams and― “No,” Parcells interrupted, “I mean tell me about yourself. I know about your football. ― Bill Parcells
96. When leadership is defined not as a position you hold but as a way of ‘being,’ you can discover that you can lead from wherever you are. ― Rosamund Stone Zander
97. When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly. ― Blaine Lee
98. When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed. ― Russel Honore
99. When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. ― Benjamin Franklin
100. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ― Henry Ford
101. Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect. ― Irwin Federman