John C. Maxwell - Team Quotes

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

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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.

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The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

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

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To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

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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?

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Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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