Project management quotes

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◆ Group projects? 1 person does all the work. Everyone takes credit.

- 100

◆ Project managers function as bandleaders who pull together their players each a specialist with individual score and internal rhythm. Under the leader's direction, they all respond to the same beat.

- LR Sayles99

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

- W Edwards Deming99

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

- 99

◆ Whilst you can practice good project management without EVM, you cannot practice EVM effectively without good project management.

- Steve Crowther99

◆ Beware the time-driven project with an artificial deadline.

- 99

◆ Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

- 99

◆ Running a project without a WBS is like going to a strange land without a roadmap.

- 99

◆ Everyone needs deadlines.

- Walt Disney99

◆ 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 Gumz99

◆ Our focus on meaningful projects means serving a useful social purpose while generating high-quality profits.

- Masimi Iijima99

◆ Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we.'

- Frank Lampl99

◆ A project without a critical path is like a ship without a rudder.

- 99

◆ Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter F Drucker99

◆ A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.

- Scott Allen99