Elbert Hubbard
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. G K Chesterton
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
Laurence J. Peter
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
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
Will Rogers
Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.
Ashleigh Brilliant
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
Herbert Hoover
Meetings and the Law of Triviality … briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C Northcote Parkinson
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
Unknown
Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Teamwork is wasting half of one’s time explaining to others why they are wrong.
Georges Wolinski