AtomI came across this site which lists some proverbs for project managers. Here are a selection that I liked a lot:
It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women (although it is more fun trying).
You can con a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con him into meeting it.
At the heart of every large project is a small project trying to get out.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.
A user is somebody who tells you what they want the day you give them what they asked for.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you haven't understood the plan.
Everyone asks for a strong project manager - when they get him they don't want him.
Managing IT people is like herding cats.
- and my favorite is
Fast - cheap - good: you can have any two.
Maybe I should have these made up into fortune cookies for this year's company christmas dinner…
