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 […]
Committee Quotes
If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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.