Assemble High Performing Teams Quotes
Nothing big is built alone, and nothing great is built with the wrong people. The man who hires character and talent, then gets out of their way, multiplies himself. This Freedom path holds history's greatest quotes on building teams. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”
“Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.”
“Light is the task where many share the toil.”
“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”
“All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.”
“Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.”
“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”
“The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.”
“It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”
“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”
“You can have the best strategy and the best building in the world, but if you don't have the hearts and minds of the people who work with you, none of it comes to life.”
“Don't move information to authority, move authority to the information.”
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
“The role of a leader is to define the destination and get out of their way”
“No man can rise to fame and fortune without carrying others along with him. It simply cannot be done.”
“People, ideas, machines - in that order.”
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.”
“Hire character. Train skill.”
“Individuals don't win in business; teams do”
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
“You don't build a business, you build people, and people build the business.”
“Never let a cog become the wheel.”
“The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are.”
“Importantly, in a great team, you argue about ideas totally independent of ego. In great teams, the success of your idea is independent from your success. Just helping to find the best idea matters.”
“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”
“Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.”
“The common mistake business owners make is they think they know it all. Make sure you hire people that are smarter than you.”
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“When hiring, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”
“The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.”
“Take care of your employees and they'll take care of your customers.”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen, it is all about the people.”
“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.”
“People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.”
“It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective, and are able to align the interest of a great team.”
“I believe management is about putting people in the right positions to succeed”
“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”
“I would rather earn 1% off a hundred people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
“People don't leave companies; they leave managers.”
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”
“Create an environment where people can take risks. If everything has to be brilliant from the word go, you're never gonna get off the ground.”
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”
“Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.”
“Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.”
“The best is cheapest.”
“Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.”
“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little.”
“To achieve great things, you need a team that shares your vision”
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
“Hire for your weaknesses and not your comfortability. As a leader, you have to know what you do well and what you don't do well.”
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
“Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.”
“A good leader surrounds himself with people smarter than he is”
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.”
“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”
“Hire people smarter than you and get out of their way.”
“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”
“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.”
“In the long run, the sharpest competitive edge is excellent people.”
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”
“In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances”
“The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is people.”
“Find people who are better than you are, get out of their way, and let them get on with it.”
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.”
“The business of business is people”
“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”
“It doesn't take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win.”
“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”
“Great teams argue about ideas, not egos.”
“Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.”
“I'd rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.”
“A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way.”
“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
“People, people, people. That's everything in the end. Take even more time than you think to select the right people that you hire, spend as much time as possible to train them and help them grow. But when you realize it's not the right face anymore, then also part ways quickly.”
“Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.”
“When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.”
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
“There is no such thing as a bad hire, but there is such thing as a bad fire.”
“If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.”
“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to”
“Vision is a team sport.”
“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.”
“Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.”
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
“The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.”
“We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.”
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
“It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”
“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.”
“People leave managers, not companies.”
“Individual honors come with team success.”
“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.”
“It's one thing to be brilliant; it's another thing to make everyone around you brilliant.”
“Micromanage the process, not the people.”
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