Here’re my favorite PMP quotes. Long time ago, I used to be a project researcher. My ex-director (also one of persons I highly respect and adore) that time boosted up my morale, “In the course of your being engaged in projects or being a project researcher or the like, the time you get older is the time of your peaking period of career. There’re no word of retiring or stopping from work due to your old age in this field because the more wrinkles you have on your face, the more you’re valued and energetic with your job”. This isn’t the well-known quote from famous people though, I truly love it and hope you, too.
May below zestful PMP quotes rest your weary head upon their healthful messages:
1. “Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” – Paul Hawken
2. “Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring side together.” ~~ Jesse Jackson
3. “The Challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” ~~ Jim Rohn
4. “Servant leadership is more than just an ideal, it is an action.” ~~ James M. Shaffer, PMP
5. “Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water every ship has a good captain.” ~~ Swedish proverb
6. “Fools are reactive listeners. They have “open door” policies and claim to be ever available to answer our questions and concerns. Their feel-good approach to listening rarely leads to substantive learning. . . The wise are proactive listeners that initiate the process of listening with their own questions about what needs to change and how to make things better.”
7. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ~~ T. Roosevelt
8. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” ~~ Zig Ziglar
9. “We will either find a way, or make one.” ~~ Hannibal
10. “Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.” ~~ Issac Assimov
11. “A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.” ~~ Scott Allen
12. “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
13. “If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking.” ~~ General George Patton J
14. “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
15. “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” ~~ Winston Churchill
16. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” ~~ Isaac Newton
17. “Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.” ~~ Mark Twain
18. “‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end; then stop.’” ~~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
19. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” ~~ Gertrude Stein
20. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” ~~ John Maxwell
21. “When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.” ~~ Chinese Proverb
22. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” ~~ Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines
23. “I’m a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.” ~~ Merlin Mann
24. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ~~ George Bernard Shaw
25. “Examine what is said and not who speaks.” ~~ Unknown
26. “Let’s put a stake in the Quicksand.” ~~ Mike Lindelsee
27. “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” ~~ Rotarian
28. “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” ~~ Stanislaus Lezczynski
29. “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person’s brow.” ~~ Charles Brower
30. “There are two kinds of people: those who finish what they start, and so on.” ~~ Robert Byrne
31. “Measure twice, cut once.”~~ Carpenter’s Maxim
32. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~~ Theodore Roosevelt
33. “When times get tough, deadlines loom, and resources dwindle, his powerful message never fails to boaster the most world weary project managers.” ~~ An excerpt from a famous speech Theodore Roosevelt gave in Paris, France in 1910 called The Man in the Arena
34. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ~~ Theodore Roosevelt (Citizenship in a Republic; Paris, France – 1910
Above about PMP quotes of my collection from helpful websites on PMP. Many thanks to them, I am now really energized! Wish you catch such energetic virus, too. Last words for you, fighting on your career cum passion, everything beautiful is just within you!
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