Project Manager Quotes

#1. If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.

GE Paulus

#2. I was not a project manager who was managing and executing the day-to-day operational work of building HealthCare.gov. I didn't have the kind of comprehensive, detailed, deep knowledge of that project that a manager would have.

Todd Park

#3. A traditional project manager focuses on following the plan with minimal changes, whereas an agile leader focuses on adapting successfully to inevitable changes.

Jim Highsmith

#4. I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

Merlin Mann

#5. Cards on a wall is a way of practicing transparency, valuing and respecting the input of each team member. The project manager has the task of translating the cards into whatever format is expected by the rest of the organization.

Kent Beck

#6. The project manager accomplishes this goal through planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve goals.

D. Williams

#7. I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

Norman Wisdom

#8. We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

Andy Hertzfeld

#9. A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren't a lie or useless.

Kristin Hannah

#10. Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

Tyler Posey

#11. In short, they're a bit like a referee at a sporting event: Do a good job and nobody notices; make a mistake and the finger pointing begins.

Andrew Longman

#12. I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox.

Michael McClung

#13. I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

Edmund Phelps

#14. May we continue to workship God, with wholehearted devotion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

Mia Farrow

#16. One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Margaret Beckett

#17. We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#18. Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.

Nora Roberts

#19. A project is like love; it has clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

Gerry Geek

#20. My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

Andrea Barber

#21. Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

Jemima Kirke

#22. One day, Aaron Levie, the twenty-six-year-old CEO of Box, a well-funded new tech company, tells me it's really important to learn from what happened in the 1990s - which is why he has read a bunch of books about that era.

Dan Lyons

#23. Manager! Have brain - use it!

Gerry Geek