Gary David Goldberg Quotes

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

Individual performance doesn't mean anything to me.

To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

You cannot win a game of football on your own; it's about the entire squad working together to achieve something. That's how football works: it has always been about the group, not the individual.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

You are only as good as the people you work with, I think.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Collaboration is really important.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.

Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.