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

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(80 votes)   The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(73 votes)   A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

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(66 votes)   A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(45 votes)   dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting.

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(42 votes)   The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

Terrence Deal

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(41 votes)   Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness

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(40 votes)   Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author

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(38 votes)   The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.

V. S. Pritchett
1900-, British Author, Critic

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(37 votes)   A committee is an animal with four back legs.

John Le Carre

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(37 votes)   When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

Lewis Thomas
1913-, American Physician, Educator

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(36 votes)   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.

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

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(28 votes)   Committee--a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Milton Berle
1908-, American Actor, Entertainer

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