Having a good relationship with your team can help boost productivity and make the experience more enjoyable for everyone involved. Humor and fun in the workplace are a must!
We spend roughly 90,000 hours of our lives working, so why not have a good time while we do it? Plus, you can apply the same logic when you are collaborating with sports teams, associations, and any other group you belong to!
Being miserable in the workplace is one of the main reasons of failure. When you are not having fun, you will most likely underperform. But how can you include fun into your teamwork?
Luckily for you, great people have come up with funny quotes about teamwork to highlight the value of fun! Let’s take a closer look at these wonderful quotes that will change your perspective and give you a fresh and funny breeze of air.
“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?”
Matthew Woodring Stover
“Teamwork – A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.”
Larry Kersten
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.”
Edward Abbey
“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.”
Stephen Hawking
“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“You put together the best team that you can with the players you’ve got and replace those who aren’t good enough.”
Robert Crandall
“A good team needs three things: the right people, the right spirit, and a couple inside jokes.”
Anonymous
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“You think it’s dumb when someone says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but you stick one in there and you see how dumb that looks.”
Brendan Kiely
“If work isn’t fun, you’re not playing on the right team.”
Frank Sonnenberg
“Many hands make light work.”
John Heywood
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
John D. Rockefeller
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
Lee Iacocca
“When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?”
Thomas Hood
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’”
Don Marquis
“It’s a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleges and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.”
Alan Alda
“Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work.”
David Ogilvy
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.”
Andy Stanley
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the real greats make you feel that you, too, can be great.”
Mark Twain
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Complain a lot and people will hear you but not listen.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
Baron de Montesquieu
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
Ken Blanchard
“Every once in a while, you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off.”
Tony La Russa
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Indira Gandhi
“Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”
Scottie Pippen
“Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
“Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can’t stand.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ em to play together is the hard part.”
Casey Stengel
“Individuals can and do make a difference, but it takes a team to really mess things up.”
Unknown
“Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.”
Bill Copeland
“When you collaborate with other people, you tend to regard your own individual contribution as the most important.”
Yang Jiang
“The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.”
Malcolm Gladwell
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Harry Truman
“Trust your team. Let others do their work so you can concentrate wholly on your own.”
Gene King
“The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.”
Jon Postel
“A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken.”
Bonnie Edelstein
“Teamwork makes the dream work.”
John C Maxwell
Wrapping Up
Whether you communicate with your team remotely or in person, some interactions every day can positively impact work. Being funny is a paramount skill in the workplace.
However, it doesn’t mean you are going to be the clown of the class. It just means that you can have enjoyable interactions with the team! That way, everyone will feel better and have a better experience.
If you ever run out of ideas on what to say, pick your favorite quote from the list above and start conversations with it!
