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

—Robert Copeland

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More quotations tagged with “committees”

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

—Sir Barnett Cocks

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

—Lester J. Pourciau

Committee—a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

—Edward Shepherd Mead

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

—David Coblitz

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