Bruce Pittman Quotes

Because the resources available to the U. S. military will be increasingly limited, the objectives must be too.

I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver.

Keep the team as small as possible. Having been on several of these mega-projects, they seem to grow magically. People are attracted to the project like moths to a flame.

I am the worst strategist ever.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

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.

I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you're given.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

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.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

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

Failure to subject the project, especially in its latter frenzied stages, to a cold and objective appraisal by the best operating talent available, particularly by those not involved in the operation Failure to advise the president, at an appropriate time, that success had become dubious and to recommend that the operation be therefore canceled Failure to recognize that the project had become overt and that the military effort had become too large to be handled by the agency alone

A plan must have the assumptions specified.

The fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited

It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?'