Association Quote by Michael Faraday

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always…

— Michael Faraday

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

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

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to…

— Rupert Murdoch

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

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

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

— Art Linkletter

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last…

— Narendra Modi

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

— Walter Legge