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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
Source Unknown
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. Pritchett
One of the reasons why the Ten Commandments are so short and to the point is the fact they were given direct and did not come out of committees.
H. G. Hutcheson
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
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
Terrence Deal
A committee of one gets things done.
Joe Ryan
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Heywood Broun
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby
