11 Quotes for Project Management

Whether Pharaohs built the pyramids in Egypt in 2500 BC or Qin Dynasty built the Great Wall of China in 200 BC or President Theodore Roosevelt built the Panama Canal in early 1900, one thing is certain that some guiding project management principles were used and some sort of project managers were there to track and report the progress, manage the budgets and drive the results.

In fact, archaeologists have discovered from ancient records that there might be 4 managers involved to manage the construction of 4 faces of The Great Pyramid of Giza.

On a lighter side, even the God might be a project manager as he created the world in 6 days. He created it in different phases, had a proper work breakdown structure, completed the task as per schedule and took Sunday off to celebrate the success!!

There are 16.5 million Project Managers in the world as per an estimate from PMI (Project Management Institute). That is more than Portugal and Denmark’s populations combined. If these project managers hold each other’s hands then the human chain will be almost 30,000 Kilometers long. The world has more projects than project managers and we will be in short supply of project managers for foreseeable time.

“If project content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress. “ - Unknown

“Long-range planning works best in the short term.” - Euripides

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” - Winston Churchill

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” - General George S. Patton

“Plans are worthless. Planning is essential.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower 

“Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.” - Bob Carter

“How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.” - Frederick Brooks 

“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.” - John D. Rockefeller 

“A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room.” - Dale Dauten

“Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.” — K. Tate

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra.” - H.E. Luccock

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