Responsibility Quote by Charles Stross

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

— Antony Jay

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

“We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility for certain…

— Daniel Waterman

“The reason you have committees is that you have divided responsibilities,” Jobs said. “We don’t. At Apple you can figure out exactly who is…

— Adam Lashinsky

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

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Fred Allen

“Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty…

— Patrick Carman

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

— Chester Barnard

“If the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on, and what he takes seriously, he will fritter…

— Peter F. Drucker

“The responsibility to conduct the”

— Veronica Roth