Perfect storm Quote by Sarah Knight

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

— Karen Elson

“A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.”

— Fred Allen

Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another…

— B. C. Forbes

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

— Jilly Cooper

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

— Anonymous

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am…

— Sebastian Thrun

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

— Lois Wyse

“A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things…

— Vladimir Voinovich

“We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them…

— Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

— Peter Drucker

Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.

— Patrick Lencioni

“Meetings should be great—they’re opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing.…

— Jason Fried