Quotes about committees and meetings

"A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."

Allen, Fred A. on committees and meetings   

"Committee--a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours."

Berle, Milton on committees and meetings   

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

Berle, Milton on committees and meetings
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"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel."

Broun, Heywood on committees and meetings   

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

Carre, John Le on committees and meetings   

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on committees and meetings   

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

Cock, Barnett on committees and meetings
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"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

Colby, Frank Moore on committees and meetings   

"The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after."

Deal, Terrence on committees and meetings   

"Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better."

Drucker, Peter F. on committees and meetings   

"Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary."

Harkness, Richard on committees and meetings   

"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."

Hubbard, Elbert on committees and meetings   

"One of the reasons why the Ten Commandments are so short and to the point is the fact they were given direct and did not come out of committees."

Hutcheson, H. G. on committees and meetings   

"A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead."

Jung, Carl on committees and meetings   

"The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead."

Jung, Carl on committees and meetings   

"The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu."

Milverton, Lord on committees and meetings   

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

Parkinson, C. Northcote on committees and meetings   

"The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees."

Pritchett, V. S. on committees and meetings   

"A committee of one gets things done."

Ryan, Joe on committees and meetings   

"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."

Sampson, Anthony on committees and meetings   

"When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group."

Thomas, Lewis on committees and meetings   

"A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary."

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"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done."

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"A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours."

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"A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee."

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"dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting."

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"Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to."

Whitehorn, Katharine on committees and meetings