Meetings and committees
potential meeting
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”
― Dave Barry
agenda meeting
“I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.”
― Jonah Goldberg
business meeting money
“Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.”
― Alain de Botton
english meeting disgusted
“When they arrive at the English meeting at 2:50 on a Monday, people look generally disgusted. At the end of the meeting, they look specifically disgusted.”
― Patricia Maier
meeting group little after
“A meeting consists of a group of people who have little to say - until after the meeting.”
― P.K. Shaw
meetings enjoy charge
"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
—Thomas Sowell
productive favor meeting
"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."
—Thomas Sowell
meeting indispensible anything
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
—John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
meeting minutes hours taken wasted
"A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted."
—Captain Kirk
meetings sympthom fewer better
“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
time agenda proportional money meeting
“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993)
committee three two absent
"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent."
— Robert Copeland
human race achieve meeting
"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." "
— Dave Barry
age committee
"Our age will be known as the age of committees".
—Ernest Benn
columbus advisory committee dock
"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
—Arthur Goldberg
committee unwilling unfit unneccesary
"A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
—Author Unknown