Patrick Lencioni Quotes

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

Chemistry is a very important element for any team that wants to be serious about winning.

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

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

The team is the star, never an individual player.

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.

Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

I was always about the team, regardless of our relationship wasn't working out or didn't work out.

Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.