1. “The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.”
2. “Work friends are like portable vending machines. Every now and then, they would hand out snacks or drinks.”
3. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
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4. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
5. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
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6. “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”
7. “Friends are the sunshine of life.”
8. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
9. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
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10. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
11. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another; ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
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12. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
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13. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
14. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
15. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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16. “I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.”
17. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
18. “Only with your coworkers cheering you on can you believe in yourself and your ideas at work.”
19. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
20. “I don’t see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don’t think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.”
21. “The best way to make a friend is to be one.”
22. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
23. “Don’t underestimate work friends. No matter where your career takes you, they’ll be behind the scenes, cheering you on.”
24. “You know you work with the best team when you’re home sick and don’t have to check your email.”
25. “When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.”
26. “A work bestie takes the fall for you when they can tell you’re close to the bottom already.”
27. “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
28. “I am blessed to count among my friends and colleagues people who are very thoughtful and who deeply care about our country.”
29. “A good work friend isn’t just someone who can laugh with you. They’re also a friend that can cry with you in tough times.”
30. “If you can’t afford a therapist, all you need is Slack and a work best friend.”
31. “Your colleagues are not your friends; Your boss is not your enemy; Your subordinate is not a fool; Your office is not your house; Your house is not your office; Do not expect rewards to work hard. It is the other way around.”
32. “Fully trusting someone at work is rare. But when strong work friendships bloom, they become one of the most important relationships of your life.”
33. “Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist.”
34. “Amazing work friends are perhaps the only thing you’ll regret when calling in sick.”
35. “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
36. “Job satisfaction will almost always be impossible to achieve without a friend at work.”
37. “For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.”
38. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
39. “All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.”
40. “A good work friend can see you at your worst, but still choose to stick around.”
41. “Putting your trust in a work friend helps you trust yourself more.”
42. “Work friends are like other people’s kids. They entertain you, they delight you, and you connect with them, but someone else has to take them home.”
43. “Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.”
44. “It’s most people’s dream to work with their friends. For me, that’s no longer a dream.”
45. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”
46. “You know you have a work bestie when work starts to come second.”
47. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
48. “Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done.”
49. “I don’t have the level of vitriol and hatred for the other side as some of my colleagues do.”
50. “If you’re lucky, work friendships turn into lifelong support systems.”
51. “Work friends can turn even the most mundane tasks into tasks that feel worthwhile.”
52. “A work friend is almost the same as a partner in crime, but instead of doing actual crime, you’re stealing office supplies.”
53. “One minute you’re work acquaintances, the next you’re picking up their kids from school.”
54. “I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.”
55. “Work friends are like duct tape. They can help fix anything, but not the office coffee machine.”
56. “At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.”
57. “As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.”
58. “A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.”
59. “Work friends are the best time passers. They can make work days go by faster.”
60. “I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.”
61. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
62. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
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63. “Work friends are kind of like siblings. They’re the only ones who can interpret your eye rolls when the boss leaves the room.”
64. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prison of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
65. “A work bestie is someone you never have to explain yourself to. They just get it.”
66. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”
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67. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
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68. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
69. “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”
70. “A work friend understands the ups and downs of the job and is willing to go through with it all with you.”
71. “Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.”
72. “I listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.”
73. “Work friends are like traffic lights. They make your workdays more bearable, but they would often make you late.”
74. “When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.”
75. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.”
76. “Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.”
77. “A good work friend doesn’t hold you back when it’s time to leave the company. They leave with you.”
78. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
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79. “Work friends can make tough days bearable, and good days even better.”
80. “When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes reality.”
81. “Work friends are like the office plants . They bring life to the workplace, but require constant attention.”
82. “There’s only one thing better than a work friend — a work friend with a snack.”
83. “A true work friend is the first person you text on your day off to rub it in their face.”
84. “A work friend understands the meaning behind every raised eyebrows and eye rolls you make.”
85. “And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.”
86. “You know you have a work bestie when you have someone that will tell you when your shirt is on inside out.”
