51 Powerful Leadership Quotes for Project Managers

Project management does not come easy. You might have the finest project management tool for your team, have all the latest technology available for them, and everything, but unless you have a powerful project manager to lead them, everything else is of no use. However, becoming a successful project manager requires willingness to understand your team members and bring the best out of them.

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But seldom do managers understand this fact. Majority of them are here to assign tasks and then leave the employees in doldrums without paying heed to where they are headed in the project.

The best way to do it — learn from the experts. See what they have done, and follow their advice. And, to help you in doing so here is a list of 51 powerful quotes that will help you to become a better project manager -

1. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. — Warren Buffett
2. One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. — Arnold Glasow
3. Everyone has a plan: until they get punched in the face. — Mike Tyson
4. A goal without a plan is just a wish. — Larry Elder
5. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
6. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader

1. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. — Charles Swindoll
2. On design — “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein
3. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. — Booker T. Washington
4. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. — Confucius
5. A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. — Dale Dauten
6. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. — Stephen Covey
7. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. — Peter Drucker
8. Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it. — Mark Twain

1. The key to successful leadership today is influence not authority. — Kenneth Blanchard
2. Plans are worthless. Planning is essential. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
3. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. — Amelia Earhart
4. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France
5. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. — Max de Pree
6. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin
7. The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. — John Maxwell
8. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. — Rotarian
9. Long-range planning works best in the short term. — Euripides
10. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt

1. Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. — Colin Powell
2. The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi
3. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. — Meister Eckhart
4. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. — Henry Ford
5. Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. — Thomas Edison
6. Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. — Roger Von Oech
7. The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.- Jessica Savitch
8. There are no failures — just experiences and your reactions to them. — Tom Krause
9. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. — John D. Rockefelle
10. Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill
11. Managing to have a sense of humour makes it a lot easier to manage people. — Steve Wilson
12. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby

1. If you always blame others for your mistakes, you will never improve. — Joy Gumz
2. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. — Michael Jordan
3. Change before you have to. — Jack Welch
4. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw
5. In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone. — Bill Gates
6. Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything. — John Galbraith
7. People are more easily led than driven. — David Harold Fink
8. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton
9. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Charles Kettering
10. Measure twice, cut once.- Carpenter’s Maxim
11. How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time. — Frederick Brooks
12. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. — John D. Rockefeller
13. Goals are dreams with deadlines. — Diana Scharf

1. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg
2. Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. — Cavett Robert

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