The Best Project Management Quotes

Enjoy these pearls of wisdom and famous quotes on managing projects and managing programs.

"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things"

Machiavelli 1446-1507, Italian statesman and philosopher

"The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved"

Gay Talese 1932-, American (Italian-born) journalist

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man"

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish playwright and critic

"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand"

Chinese Proverb

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better"

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, English lexicographer

"A goal without a plan is just a wish"

Antoine de Saint Exupéry 1900-1944, French writer and aviator

"Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances"

Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist

"This feeling, finally, that we may change things - this is at the centre of everything we are. Lose that... lose everything"

Sir David Hare 1947-, British playwright and author of many satires

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