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100 Funny Teamwork Quotes

These funny teamwork quotes bring smiles and giggles. Your team might even forget they are working hard for a little while. This is exactly what you want when trying to keep everyone motivated through ups and downs of the job. We think that when it comes to teamwork quotes, funny ones are often the best. This collection includes short funny quotes about teamwork, funny team quotes, inspirational funny teamwork quotes, funny sayings about teamwork, funny workplace quotes, funny work quotes, funny hard work quotes, and funny success quotes.

These funny teamwork quotes and funny sayings about teamwork will have your co-workers laughing out loud and remembering what it’s like to be part of a great team. We have also included some funny teamwork quotes and images.

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You might also like our lists of Teamwork Captions, Inspirational Work Quotes, Funny Work Quotes and Hard Work Quotes. And for each day of the work week we have lists of Monday Quotes for Work, Tuesday Quotes for Work, Wednesday Quotes for Work, Thursday Quotes for Work and Friday Quotes for Work.

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Funny Teamwork Quotes

Here are some funny teamwork quotes that will make you smile.

“Teamwork – A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” — Larry Kersten

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Michael Jordan

“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” — Mike Krzyzewski

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni

“It’s called “teamwork” but most of the time it’s everyone sitting around until one man does all the work.” — Thomas Wilbur

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“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.” — Edward Abbey

“A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!” — Bonnie Edelstein

“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” — George Shinn

“Coming Together is the beginning. Staying Together is the development and working together is the key to success.” — Henry Ford

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” — Patrick Lencioni

“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” – Don Herold

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“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” — Steve Jobs

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” — Babe Ruth

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” — John Donne

Short Funny Quotes About Teamwork

Check out these short funny quotes about teamwork. We also have a larger list of the best Short Quotes. These make great funny teamwork quotes for employees.

“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” — Jason Kidd

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

“No team works out teamwork.” — Dwyane Wade

“Sure, there’s no ‘i’ in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an ‘e’.” — Kevin Myers

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“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” — Lou Holtz

“Working together works.” — Dr. Rob Gilbert

“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard

“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.” — Vince Lambordi

“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” — Thomas Sowell

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin

“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.” — Michael Winner

“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” – Kate Summers

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“Teachers call it copying. We call it ‘teamwork’.” — A Student

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford

“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” — Chuck Shade

“Men have never been individually self-sufficient.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

Funny Team Quotes

These funny team quotes will make your day. You might also want to check out our list of Funny Short Quotes.

“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” — Lee Iacocca

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” — John Wooden

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — Halford E.

“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” — Matthew Woodring Stover

“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

“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” — Muhammad Ali

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” — Pablo Picasso

“Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.” — Dilbert

“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” — Lewis Grizzard

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” — Aristotle

“Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train.” — The Office

Inspirational Funny Teamwork Quotes

Here are some inspirational funny teamwork quotes. And if you like inspirational quotes, check out our lists of Short Inspirational QuotesFunny Inspirational Quotes, and Inspirational Quotes for Today.

“Tough times don’t last, tough teams do.” — Robert Schuller

“It takes two flints to make a fire.” — Louisa May Alcott

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” — Henry Ford

“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” — Mia Hamm

“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” — Lou Holtz

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“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs

“The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” — Reid Hoffman

“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” — Mother Teresa

“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

Funny Sayings About Teamwork

Enjoy these funny teamwork sayings, then check out our complete list of Funny Sayings.

“Work hard, have fun, no drama”

“Nobody is as smart as all of us together.”

“Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.”

“A single stick is easily broken, but bundle sticks together and they become unbreakable.”

“Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.”

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“What is success?  It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”

“Before you reach the top of the ladder, make sure it’s leaning against the right wall.”

“I can’t. But we can.”

“Keep calm. Team work makes the dream work.”

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, bring others.”

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

Funny Workplace Quotes

You’ll find some of the best funny workplace quotes in this section.

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” — Earl Wilson

If you like this quote head to our list of Good Luck Quotes for more.

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” — George Burns

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.” — Quentin Crisp

“I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates

“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” — Phyllis Diller

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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” — Rita Mae Brown

“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.’ – Woody Allen

“The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour.” — Wernher von Braun

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” — Drew Carey

“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” — J. Paul Getty

“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.” — Joseph Stilwell

“Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.” — Andrew Young

“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia

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“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” — Kin Hubbard

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost

“Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.” — Doug Larson

“If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some.” — Benjamin Franklin

“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russel

“The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse.” — Denise Miller

Funny Work Quotes

Here are some funny work quotes to help you get through the day. You can also check out our full list of Funny Work Quotes.

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin

“As I have gotten older and wiser I discovered that there are six things that I really loved about my job. Pay day, lunch time, quitting time, vacation time, holidays, and of course retirement.” — Tom Goins

“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” — John Gotti

“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.​” — Homer Simpson

“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?​”  — Kin Hubbard

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen

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“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.” — Fats Domino

“No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx

“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard

Funny Hard Work Quotes

These funny hard work quotes will surely brighten up your day. You might also be interested in our list of Hard Work Quotes.

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“Work harder than you think you did yesterday.” — Alex Elle

“Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.” — David Ogilvy

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” — Ralph Lauren

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” —

Frederick Douglass

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” — G.K. Neilson

“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” — Michelangelo

“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” — Larry Bird

Funny Success Quotes

These funny success quotes will give you a good laugh.

“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.” — Mitch Hedberg

“If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.” — William Lyon Phelps

“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.’” — Carrie Fisher

“If at first you don’t succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.” — David Brent

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.” — Quentin Crisp

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“Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.” — Fran Lebowitz

“Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’” — Joey Adams

“Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it’s pretty much all luck.” — Richard Jeni

“Remember, it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.” — Darrin Weinberg

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiam.” – Winston Churchill

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“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.” — Mae West

“Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.” — George Ade

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” — Mark Twain

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers

“A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.” — Jay London

“The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.” — Nancy Astor

Funny Quotes for the Work Week

If you like funny quotes for each day of the work week check out our lists of Funny Monday Quotes, Funny Tuesday Quotes, Funny Wednesday Quotes, FunnyThursday Quotes, and Funny Friday Quotes. And check out our list of Funny Quotes of the Day.

“Everyday is Monday….till Friday.” — Viktor VolksPrater

“Mondays are a lot like getting fat. They make you feel sad, sometimes angry and there is not much scope for liking either fat or Mondays for any reason.” — Garry Moll

“The best weeks start on Monday.” — Nice Peter

“Monday isn’t that bad to be honest, what makes it bad is living in it.” – Day

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“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends – but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more positive partnership.” — Julio Alexi Genao

“There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can’t wait to go to work? And when you’re ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, ‘I can’t wait to go home?’” — Chuck Schumer

“I don’t like Mondays, especially if they occur on Fridays.” — Jarod Kintz

“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!” — Neil Leckman

“Why does winter feel like one big Tuesday?” — Todd Stocker

“I don’t want it good. I want it Tuesday.” — Jack L. Warner

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“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” — George Weah

“Wednesday can only dream of becoming Thursday.” — Anthony T.

“On Wednesday they’re feelin’ fine again, And they’re workin’ like a dog and diggin’ in.” — Johnny Cash

“Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It’s nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long” — Nicci French

“When people refer to ‘Back in the Day,’ it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.” — Dane Cook

“Thursday comes and the week’s gone.” — George Herbert

“Thrusday is the most dangerous day of the week.” – Marty Stern

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“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” ― Noel Coward

“It’s finally Friday, I’m free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend.” — George Jones

“If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn’t want me here either.” — James Johnson

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