Madison Smartt Bell Quotes

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

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

You can’t do leadership alone.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

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 not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.

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

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.

The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated.

Without my team-mates I could not do anything.

We cannot just rely on the public sector or the private sector. We all need to work together.

I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.

Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.

It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.

Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person's efforts.

I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.