John C. Maxwell Team Quotations

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.

In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

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.

Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team.

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.