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

“Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we” is a teamwork saying that has been printed on many images. The following teamwork saying has been cited in print since at least 1992:
 
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Simply stated, it is less me and more we.”
 
Authorship is unknown.
   
       
Google Books
Flexible Manufacturing Cells and Systems
By William W. Luggen
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
1991    
Pg. 110:
Less “me” and more “we” orientation as a result of the team and system approach.
     
Google Books
Quality, Service, Teamwork and the Quest for Excellence:
The Keys to Business Success in the 90’s
By Celebrating Excellence Staff
Lombard, IL: Celebrating Excellence Pub.
1992
Pg. 57+:
Teamwork
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Simply stated, it is less me and more we.”
 
18 April 1994, Orlando (FL) Sentinel, “UF’s Basketball Team Honored” by Mike Dame, pg. B2:
Brown recited a poem on teamwork that ended, “It is a view that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Simply stated, it is less ‘me’ and more ‘we.’ “
   
Google Books
Opto-Electronic Processing & Networking:
A Design Study
By Eugène Eduard Edwin Frietman
Techn. Univ. Delft
1995
Pg. ?:
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common goal. Ability directs individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
     
Google Groups: misc.emerg-services
WHERE ARE THE FIREFIGHTING JOBS???
Mike Grill
1/18/96
(...)
“Teamwork - more we and less me.”
   
Google Books
Secrets from the Mountain:
Ten Lessons for Success in Life
By Pat Williams with David Wimbish
Grand Rapids, MI: F.H. Revell
2001
Pg. 123:
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organized objectives. It is the fuel that allows uncommon people to attain common results. Simply put, it is less me and more we.
 
Twitter
Strategic Sense
@strategicsense
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we. ~Unknown
9:29 AM - 24 Feb 2009
   
Google Books
Personal Development for Life and Work
By Ann Masters and Harold R. Wallace
Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning
2011
Pg. 148:
“Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” —UNKNOWN
 
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@Bit_docs
“Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” – Anonymous
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7:00 PM - 14 Apr 2018