Committee Quotes


A committee of one gets things done. Joe Ryan Committee 556
A committee is an animal with four back legs. John Le Carre Committee 120
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary. Richard Harkness Committee 90
Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting. William Goldman Committee 89
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. Stephen Breyer Committee 87
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles Kettering Committee 87
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. Source Unknown Committee 87
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. C. Northcote Parkinson Committee 80
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. Source Unknown Committee 78
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. Anthony Sampson Committee 78
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon. Wilson Greatbatch Committee 75
The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu. Lord Milverton Committee 73
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. H. G. Hutcheson Committee 73
dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting. Source Unknown Committee 70
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after. Terrence Deal Committee 64
The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees. V. S. Pritchett Committee 64
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. Ed Gillespie Committee 63
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. Carl Gustav Jung Committee 62
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. Peter Drucker Committee 60
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. Source Unknown Committee 55
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred A. Allen Committee 53
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. Katharine Whitehorn Committee 53
The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth. Frank Luntz Committee 49
Committee--a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. Milton Berle Committee 44
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen Committee 41
This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton. Robert Teeter Committee 41
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. Heywood Broun Committee 41
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. Lady Bird Johnson Committee 41
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. Oscar Wilde Committee 38
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard Committee 38
A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead. Carl Gustav Jung Committee 35
A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary. Source Unknown Committee 34
The optimum committee has no members. Norman Ralph Augustine Committee 33
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. Frank Moore Colby Committee 31
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late. Oliver Wendell Holmes Committee 29
A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours. Source Unknown Committee 25

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