“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
“I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.”
― Jonah Goldberg
“Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.”
― Alain de Botton
“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
“A meeting consists of a group of people who have little to say - until after the meeting.”
― P.K. Shaw
"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
—Thomas Sowell
"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."
—Thomas Sowell
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
—John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
"A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted."
—Captain Kirk
“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
“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)
"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent."
— Robert Copeland
"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
"Our age will be known as the age of committees".
—Ernest Benn
"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
—Arthur Goldberg
"A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
—Author Unknown