Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better."
Committees quotes
Committees
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Roger Stone
Political Consultant
"Nobody ever built a statue to a committee."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee."
Alton Brown
Chef, Television Personality
"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
Karen McCarthy
Politician
"I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong."
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"The optimum committee has no members."
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"We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver."
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"So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it."
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"[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings."
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"Committees do harm merely by existing."
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"A committee is twelve men doing the work of one."
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