| Project Management Quotes and Proverbs |
| The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory. |
| Fast - cheap - good: pick any two. |
| The more ridiculous the deadline the more money will be wasted trying to meet it. |
| If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. |
| It is human to make a mistake; it is stupid to persist in it. |
| If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. |
| Work expands so as to fill the time available. |
| Luck, the harder you work the more you have of it. |
| If you fail to plan you are planning to fail. |
| What is not on paper has not been said. |
| The conditions attached to a promise are forgotten - only the promise is remembered. |
| Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn’t have to do it. |
| There’s never enough time to do it right first time, but there’s always enough time to go back and do it again. |
| You can con a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con him into meeting it. |
| If project content is allowed to change freely the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress. |
| Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything. |
| You can build a reputation on what you’re going to do. |
| Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal. |
| You can’t manage what you don’t measure. |
