Bureaucracy Quote by Ryan Lilly

“Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

— Barnett Cocks

“It takes a lot of commitment to sit on a committee. Only the most courageous could boldly command all that power, yet remain detached…

— Jarod Kintz

“The committee won't help you, it won't help anyone, the committee is the old way, he laughs at your committee because it's the old…

— Stephen King

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 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

“In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. ‘Search the parks in all your cities You’ll find no statues of committees.”

— David Ogilvy

“Everything needs to be vetted by a million committees, and we’re afraid of practically everything. We’re just not willing to accept risk anymore, and…

— Matthew Mather

“idea the situation was so bad until I asked each committee member to present a status report at our meeting this morning.”

— Rachel Renée Russell

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

— Antony Jay

“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of…

— Ayn Rand

“We deny our weaknesses because we refuse to take responsibility for failures.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi