Committee Quotes

If you see a snake, just kill it – don’t appoint a committee on snakes.

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

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

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.

Socrates was killed by a committee.

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

The optimum committee has no members.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.