John Lennon Quotes

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

We're strongest when we're united, and we're united when everyone has an opportunity to contribute their talents and ideas.

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 doesn't matter if you have the best individual players, as you need to have the best team unit.

At Brazil, we play as a collective, something that also happens in Barcelona, but not at Real Madrid.

One guy can't make a team better.

I think the team is always better than the individual player.

In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong.

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

The best way to build anything is to build it together and build it with diversity, because then you really get good ideas about how to be strong. And you need a strong foundation, which brings about the notion that all of us in the neighborhoods, I still consider myself to be one of them.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Two are better than one if two act as one.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

A group of amazingly high achievers can be brought together and play together, and all believe that they are competing for something bigger than themselves. Those players are so used to being patted on the back and told how good they are. Frankly, those are usually the hardest people to remind that they are aspiring to achieve something bigger than themselves.

In my walks of life, I've understood that it takes more than one person to think of achieving a goal, and it takes more than one or two players, to get you out of the position you're in.

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.