Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
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.