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


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


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


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


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.


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


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


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


A committee is an animal with four back legs.


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.


A committee of one gets things done.


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


A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.


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.


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


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


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


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


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


Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

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