Small Teams Quotes

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

I don't agree that there are big teams and small teams in the Premier League. There are just a lot of good teams.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.

At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.

I watch the Premier League every weekend. I think it's fantastic. One thing you notice is that the teams considered small are capable of surprising the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and City.

Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created anything revolutionary.) Big teams aren't conducive to revolutionary products because such products require a high degree of single-mindedness, unity, and unreasonable passion.

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

It's nice when little teams win.

A recipe I've seen work in early-stage startups is a small tight-knit group of passionate people who are obsessed with their vision of how to fix a particular industry. Conversely, teams composed of people with a lot of specialized experience at running a large business are not as likely to do very well in the first year or two of a startup.

The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.

In general, a lot of content creators find that their success is unable to support any sort of organization of scale. It's pretty difficult to support even three or four employees.

The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.

The small teams are playing well. That's visible, and it has had an impact on German football.

When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.