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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
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.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
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.