Working together as a team can be fun, rewarding and it will certainly help to reach bigger and more ambitious goals.
But it can also be challenging, frustrating and sometimes increase the stress and pressure until you just feel fed up.
So if you and your team are having one of those days – or weeks – then this post is for you.
In it you’ll find 70 of the most funny teamwork quotes.
Hilarious and relatable ones that will make you laugh and release some of that stress. Somewhat inspirational ones or at least ones that will help you to shift your perspective a bit for the day.
And clever ones to share with your favorite coworkers to make their day better too.
Funny Teamwork Quotes for Stress Relief in the Workplace
“Teamwork – a few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.”
– Larry Kersten
“It’s called ‘teamwork’ but most of the time it’s everyone sitting around until one man does all the work.”
– Thomas Wilbur
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much damage.”
– Sandra Shea
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Taking the credit yourself is genius.”
– Unknown
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing that 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
“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
– Jason Kidd
“Sure, there’s no ‘i’ in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an ‘e’.”
– Kevin Myers
“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”
– Lou Holtz
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
– Thomas Sowell
“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.”
– Michael Winner
“Teachers call it copying. We call it ‘teamwork’.”
– Unknown
“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?”
– Matthew Woodring Stover
“Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us.”
– Dave Barry
“Committee: A group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.”
– Fred Allen
“A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours are wasted.”
– James T. Kirk
“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Francesca Elisia
“The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.”
– Robert Townsend
“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.”
– Jane Goodall
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
— George Carlin
“It’s a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.”
— Alan Alda
“Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.”
– Jim Harper
“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s just suspicious and makes me nervous.”
– Unknown
“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
“The best way to appreciate your team is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Joy Stevens
Hilarious Teamwork Quotes for Your Coworkers
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”
– Howard Aiken
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
– George Carlin
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.”
– Sarah Cooper
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’”
– Don Marquis
“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.”
— Unknown
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
– Steve Jobs
“If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’”
— Dave Barry
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it.”
— Groucho Marx
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance?”
– Edgar Bergen
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
– Albert Grant
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
– Unknown
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life… because that field probably isn’t hiring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“Dream big, work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with funny people.”
– Carol Burnett
“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx
“The expert in anything was once a beginner, but the beginner probably had more fun.”
– Bob Simmons
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”
— Mark Twain
“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 you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.”
– Leslie Nielsen
“Teamwork means sharing the air conditioning controls without starting a civil war.”
– Unknown
“The secret to teamwork is pretending to be excited about other people’s ideas.”
– Sarah Kelly
Short, Positive and Funny Team Building and Teamwork Quotes
“Unity is strength… when there are no shortcuts left to take.”
– Bob Thomas
“Behind every great team is an exhausted and confused leader wondering how it all went wrong.”
– Unknown
“Individually we are one drop, together we are an ocean of possibilities for things to go hilariously wrong.”
– Anna Davis
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
— Will Rogers
“Working together works. Until somebody starts stealing lunch boxes and toilet paper.”
– Unknown
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
— Bertrand Russell
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
– Halford E.
“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
– Lewis Grizzard
“The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!”
– Marvin Phillips
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.”
— Douglas Adams
“Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.”
– Richard Branson
“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.”
– Stanley Randall
“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results, or at least uncommonly funny mistakes.”
– Unknown
“None of us is as smart as all of us, which is encouraging. And terrifying.”
– Sandra Shea
“Great teams don’t hold back their opinions, they just learn to express them without causing permanent damage.”
– Fay Collins
“In the end, we’re all here just trying to look busy until it’s time to go home.”
– Unknown
“A good team is like a good joke – timing is everything.”
– Sam Williams
Want more inspiration and stress relief for work? Then have a look at these short funny work quotes and also the hilarious work quotes in this post. Plus, these positive workplace quotes, this one with hard work quotes and the motivational quotes for work here.