Quotes on Project Management

Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I will either find a way or make one.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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