Quotes on Committees & Meetings

Life Quotes on Committees & Meetings

Quotes on Committees & Meetings

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.” ~Dave Barry, “Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn”

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That’ll do them in. ~Author Unknown


Our age will be known as the age of committees. ~Ernest Benn

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. ~Robert Copeland
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ~Milton Berle

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. ~Author Unknown
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks, attributed

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. ~Arthur Goldberg
A committee is an animal with four back legs. ~John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. ~H.L. Mencken

A “Normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.” ~Alan Sherman

Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George Will

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. ~Author Unknown



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

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. ~Author Unknown
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?… Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ~Frank Moore Colby
I don’t believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don’t believe it can write a book. ~Arnold Toynbee

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau

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

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ~Thomas Sowell