Project Management Quotes

• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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• Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Success, Disappointment

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Business, Top Management, Systems And Processes

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Life, Wise, Time

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

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• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

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• Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Time, Business

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• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.

  Katherine Tate

  Football, Games, Play

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• It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Management, Easier

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

  Antony Starr

  Skills, Collaboration, Boards

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• Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Data, Garbage

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Philosophy, Philosophical

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12

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• If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Failure, Procrastination, Done

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• Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

  Harold Kerzner

  Art, Creating, Dumb

  Harold Kerzner (2009). “Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, People, Leader

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• The only real training for leadership is leadership.

  Antony Jay

  Leadership, Real, Coaching

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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