Committees Quote by Stan Kelly-Bootle

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can…

— Fred Allen

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 people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.

— Green Monk

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

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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

— Laurence J. Peter