Committees Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can…

— Fred Allen

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.

— Green Monk

Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and…

— Ferdinand Porsche

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

— Richard Harkness

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

— Fred Allen

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

— Fred Allen

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

— Stella Benson

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

— Betsy DeVos