Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

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

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish.

Who is this repulsive dwarf?

As the day you get married is as important as the years of courtship, so the journey to success is as important as success itself.

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.