Syd Barrett Quotes

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

No team works out teamwork.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

A team is a team.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

If three come together let them pick a leader.

For running a country, team work is important, and the person at the helm has to enjoy teamwork.

If you're starting a group, don't think about being a star or you're in for heartbreak. It you enjoy singing, that's enough.

Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along better than most bands we toured with and most people we knew. And at the same time, when you're that democratic and concerned with each other's opinions, you're always concerned with what the other people think.

I've always been a team player.

When we come into the NSC, everybody has different opinions. At the end of the day, we present the president with all the facts. We let him make the decision. And we all, as a team, go out and support that decision.