Blame Quote by Hal Riney

Committees do harm merely by existing.

— Freeman Dyson

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

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

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what…

— Milos Forman

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

— Antony Jay

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts…

— Charlton Heston

“We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the…

— Charles Stross

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

— Rick Warren

“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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

— Aesop

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and…

— James C. Collins

“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be…

— H.L. Mencken