The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Quotes

“It's better to prepare than to repair.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That’s the Law of Significance.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don’t add value, then the whole team gets better. It’s just like trimming trees: If you don’t cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there’s room for productive new branches on the tree.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths—their talent, skill, and experience.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Effective teams have teammates who are constantly talking to one another.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“A great dream with a bad team is nothing more than a nightmare.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“what gets rewarded gets done. If you praise and honor the people who epitomize the values of the team, those values get embraced and upheld by other members of the team. There is no better reinforcement.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“You can’t take the team to the next level when you haven’t mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Winning teams have players who make things happen.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“The road to the next level is always uphill, and if a team isn’t intentionally fighting to move up, then it inevitably slides down.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“the strength of the team is impacted by its weakest link.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“You lose the respect of the best when you don’t deal properly with the worst.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“distinct vision, a precise plan, plenty of resources, and incredible leadership, but if you don’t have the right people, you’re not going to get anywhere.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Nobody is a whole team . . . We need each other. You need someone and someone needs you. Isolated islands we’re not. To make this thing called life work, we gotta lean and support. And relate and respond. And give and take. And confess and forgive. And reach out and embrace and rely . . . Since none of us is a whole, independent, self-sufficient, super-capable, all-powerful hotshot, let’s quit acting like we are. Life’s lonely enough without our playing that silly role. The game is over. Let’s link up.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie declared, “It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.” To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Everyone is important, but everyone isn’t equal. The person with greater experience, skill, and productivity in a given area is more important to the team in that area.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Just as personal values influence and guide an individual’s behavior, organizational values influence and guide the team’s behavior.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Every human being has value, and every player on a team adds value to the team in some way.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“If everyone doesn’t pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price by losing.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“The winner’s edge is in the attitude, not aptitude.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Great vision precedes great achievement.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go, Life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“A sign of a great team leader is the proper placement of people.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“What happens to a team when one or more of its members constantly play out of position? First, morale erodes because the team isn’t playing up to its capability. Then people become resentful.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Individuals score points, but teams win games. In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, individuals will learn how to score more points so their teams will win more games.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Most people’s natural inclination is to judge themselves according to their best qualities while they measure others by their worst. As a result, they point to areas where their teammates need to grow. But the truth is that every person is responsible for his own growth first.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“One mistake I’ve seen people repeatedly make is that they focus too much attention on their dream and too little on their team. But the truth is that if you build the right team, the dream will almost take care of itself.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“Winning teams have players who put the good of the team ahead of themselves. They want to play in their area of strength, but they’re willing to do what it takes to take care of the team. They are willing to sacrifice their role for the greater goal.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team