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
All management is the management of promises. — Tony Robbins
Management is the art of getting things done through people. — Mary Parker Follett
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills. — Stuart Pearce
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. — Paul Hawken
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. — Sun Tzu
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi
Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was. — Phil Crosby
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. — Lee Iacocca
One key element of management of a group like this is decentralization. — Bernard Arnault
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. — Ross Perot
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility. — Bernard Arnault
Short Project Management Quotes
Personal energy management is as important as any technical skill. — Greg Brockman
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done — Hyman Rickover
In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control. — Joko Widodo
If at first you don't succeed, try management. — Stephen Hawking
You need the right team of inspired managers. — Bernard Arnault
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. — Peter Drucker
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. — Grace Hopper
Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives. — Russel Honore
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't. — Anthea Turner
Project Management Image Quotes
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley
Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it. — Alvin Toffler
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Business Management Quotes
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
If you want to improve how you manage your time, stop doing what doesn't need to be done.
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations. — Chris Voss
Be happy with the little you have, there are some people with nothing who still manage to smile
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
What’s kept me intrigued is that it is one of the few jobs where everyday you can study something new. You are constantly learning about new businesses, new situations, new management teams, new issues. So it’s infinitely challenging. — Bill Ackman
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years. — Donna Mills
My biggest regret in business is not starting sooner. It took 4 years to build my first website, but the day I actually started to build my website it only took me 10 hours. — Alex Hormozi
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. — Rita Mae Brown
The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement. — Peter Block
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
All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result. — Stephen Covey
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it. — Mark Twain
Change is not made without inconvenience. — Samuel Johnson
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. — Amy Poehler
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system. — W. Edwards Deming
Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan. — Katherine Tate
Always begin with the end in mind. — Ellen Muth
What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project. — Kris Kidd
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. — Trevor Nunn
The only real training for leadership is leadership. — Antony Jay
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. — Sven-Goran Eriksson
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. — Don Tapscott
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! — Benjamin Franklin
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. — Russell Pearce
The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.' — Marshall Goldsmith
Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible. — Kenichi Ohmae
Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems! — Tony Robbins
Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed. — Sandra Postel
How to manage a project: Limit it in scope. Make it simple. Get success. Then iterate. — Auren Hoffman
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs. — Barry Boehm
Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model — Harold Kerzner
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan. — Winston Churchill
Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.” He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that. — Richelle Mead
Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators! — Mark Mason
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience. — Robert Updegraff
If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing. — Mel Thompson
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed) — Eleanor Roosevelt
It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. — Isaac Asimov
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