David Leslie Quotes

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza

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

Sometimes you think that a reconstruction project can be done more quickly than you expected.

I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost.

Frankly, we don't have the resources to go everywhere and do everything.

Trying to do more with less only means we will do nothing.

Everyone has a different perspective and they all want their perspective to be addressed within the limited resources you have.

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

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

From all indications, the Offutt runway replacement is not a matter of 'if.' It is a matter of 'when.'

The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.

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

Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

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

I have to bring my A-Game 24/7, between creating, draping, and overseeing a myriad of different brands.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

I'm a very hands-on producer.

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

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

We know Donald Trump wants to hit his goals ahead of time, and under budget.

All the projects that I am part of get delayed for reasons beyond my control!

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.