Peter Navarro Quotes

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

I put projects together. I put people together.

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

We were fighting a war. We did not have time for duplicate vouchers and double-entry bookkeeping. It is a hell-fired shame for everybody [on this Congressional committee] to be trying to pick flyspecks on the greatest army the world ever knew. We did more organization despite our unpreparedness than the French and the British. What do you suppose we went to war for? We went to France to win the war [World War I] and we did it.

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.

If you asked me, ‘Where’s the scientific evidence of what’s adding value to a campaign?,’ I’d say field organizing. But the campaign consultants who are most famous are the strategists, especially the ones who focus on TV. And that’s where the evidence of the effectiveness of anything that people do in campaigns is the most limited.