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Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it
At the heart of every large project is a small project trying to get out.
The most valuable and least used WORD in a project manager's vocabulary is "NO".

The same work under the same conditions will be estimated differently by ten different estimators or by one estimator at ten different times.
Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's completed).
You can con a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con him into meeting it.
The more you plan the luckier you get.
If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.

A change freeze is like the abominable snowman: it is a myth and would anyway melt when heat is applied.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Too few people on a project can't solve the problems - too many create more problems than they solve
It is better to be short a bad programmer than to add a good one.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.
A user will tell you anything you ask about, but nothing more.
Of several possible interpretations of a communication, the least convenient is the correct one

If you don't attack the risks, the risks will attack you.
What you don't know hurts you.
The most valuable and least used PHRASE in a project manager's vocabulary is "I don't know".
Murphy is alive and well - and working on your project.

The conditions attached to a promise are forgotten, only the promise is remembered.

A problem shared is a buck passed.
If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you haven't understood the plan.
There are no good project managers - only lucky ones.