Too many lame committee or "sales" meetings and you're bound to come outta there feeling a bit crabby... (groaner!)
From Denny: The unfortunate downside of a democracy is there is no annoying dictatorial king to make swift and stupid decisions. With democracy comes snail mail slow committees making equally stupid decisions, each individual ego showing off like they were a king, until the voters get so fed up with them that we throw them ALL out of office! And start all over with a new committee of unproductive foot-dragging egos on the taxpayer's dime... Enjoy these grinners on the subject of governing by committees!
Quotes
* People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. - Thomas Sowell
* Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. - John Kenneth Galbraith
* Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. - Katharine Whitehorn
* There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. - Lester J. Pourciau
* I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. - Arnold Toynbee
* We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. - Frank Moore Colby
* Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups.
* They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. - Alfred Whitney Griswold
* If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. - Anonymous
* A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary. - Anonymous
* A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. - Anonymous
* A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. - Elbert Hubbard
* Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George Will
* A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." - Alan Sherman
* It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. - H.L. Mencken
* A committee is an animal with four back legs. - John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
* If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. - Arthur Goldberg
* A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. - Barnett Cocks, attributed
* Our age will be known as the age of committees. - Ernest Benn
* If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in. - Anonymous
* If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." - Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
* To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. - Anonymous
* A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. - Milton Berle
* To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland
*** THANKS for visiting and have a great holiday season!