Committee Quotes

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

Wherever and whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but live in fear of […]

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

The optimum committee has no members.

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

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

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

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.

Socrates was killed by a committee.