“Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”
— Joy Gumz
“The P in PM is as much about ‘people management’ as it is about ‘project management’.”
— Cornelius Fichtner
“The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner.”
— Jim Highsmith
“A goal without a timeline is just a dream.”
— Robert Herjavec
“The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.”
— Rick Hansen
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.”
— Brian Tracy
“The smaller the function, the greater the management.”
— C. Northcote Parkinson
“Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.”
— Henry Ford
“One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
— Arnold Glasow
“Done is better than perfect.”
― Sheryl Sandberg
“The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.”
— Anthea Turner
“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.”
— Karen Tate
