Done Quote by 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

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

— Fred Allen

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

— Fred Allen

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

— Richard Harkness

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

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

— Elbert Hubbard

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises…

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

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

— Stella Benson

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

— Milton Berle

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