Kevin Costner Quotes

I always said that when Madrid win, it wasn't just because of Ronaldo, Kaka, or another, and when you lose, it is not fair to blame the failures on these people alone.

Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

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.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

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

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

A real blockbuster is one where everyone, from a small technician to a distributor, gets profits. The true success of a film is when every person involved is happy.

We cannot take responsibility for every goal we concede, we all need to do our part across the field to ensure we win as a team.

If a whole team doesn't perform, you cannot pick one player especially and say, 'He doesn't do this or do that.'

A film becomes hit with the equal participation of every actors and crew members.

It's not one person that changes the team.

I like being on a team and that's what a band is like. It's us against them, strength in numbers, and sharing the success and failure.

When the team is doing well, individual performances don't count.

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners' story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

People who think and say we more often than I are a lot more likely to succeed.

Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.