The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one’s back is counterproductive.
Marcus Aurelius
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
Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Patrick Lencioni
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.
Stephen Covey
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Jean-Francois Cope
Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
Mark Twain
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.
Mike Schmoker
Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
Stephen Covey
Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.
Richard Branson
Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.
Andrew Carnegie
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it.
Paul Bryant
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
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