Assemble High Performing Teams Quotes

“To achieve great things, you need a team that shares your vision”

“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.”

“Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.”

“No man can rise to fame and fortune without carrying others along with him. It simply cannot be done.”

“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”

“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”

“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”

“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.”

“Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.”

“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”

“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.”

“I believe management is about putting people in the right positions to succeed”

“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”

“The best is cheapest.”

“The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.”

“The role of a leader is to define the destination and get out of their way”

“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 way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.”

“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”

“Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.”

“Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.”

“Great teams argue about ideas, not egos.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Individual honors come with team success.”

“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.”

“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.”

“Micromanage the process, not the people.”

“The common mistake business owners make is they think they know it all. Make sure you hire people that are smarter than you.”

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

“People don't leave companies; they leave managers.”

“Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.”

“Take care of your employees and they'll take care of your customers.”

“In the long run, the sharpest competitive edge is excellent people.”

“It's one thing to be brilliant; it's another thing to make everyone around you brilliant.”

“I would rather earn 1% off a hundred people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”

“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.”

“The business of business is people”

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

“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.”

“Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.”

“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”

“People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.”

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.”

“In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances”

“It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”

“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little.”

“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.”

“When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.”

“People, ideas, machines - in that order.”

“Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

“Hire people smarter than you and get out of their way.”

“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 real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is people.”

“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.”

“Don't move information to authority, move authority to the information.”

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

“Ideas are a dime a dozen, it is all about the people.”

“Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.”

“A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way.”

“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.”

“There is no such thing as a bad hire, but there is such thing as a bad fire.”

“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”

“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”

“The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Hire character. Train skill.”

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.”

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”

“Individuals don't win in business; teams do”

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

“When hiring, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”

“Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.”

“Never let a cog become the wheel.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

“Vision is a team sport.”

“Find people who are better than you are, get out of their way, and let them get on with it.”

“It doesn't take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win.”

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to”

“If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.”

“All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.”

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

“Light is the task where many share the toil.”

“People leave managers, not companies.”

“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.”

“Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.”

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”

“A good leader surrounds himself with people smarter than he is”

“I'd rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.”

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”

“The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.”

“You don't build a business, you build people, and people build the business.”

“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”