Martin Cooper Quotes

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.

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.

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.

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.

With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.

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.

In my business, you have so many things going at once - TV shows, projects, movies - and sometimes, things never actually come to fruition.

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've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

Don't start vast projects with half-vast resources.

Keeping the risk management plan up to date can transform it from a door stop into a vital project management tool. Remember: what you don't know can kill your project.

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

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.

Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.

One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.

I do a project, and then I move on.

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

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

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

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.