Committees Quote by Charlton Heston

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

— Lady Bird Johnson

“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

If I were on a committee, I'd be wasting my time.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second…

— Katharine Whitehorn

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

— Kurt Vonnegut

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to…

— Alvar Aalto

We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance…

— David Spangler

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

— Laurence J. Peter

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

— Frank Moore Colby

“There are dangers in this model of succumbing to “committee-itis.” If too many people are jointly responsible for the execution of firm business, the…

— David H. Maister

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

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a…

— Herman Kahn