Tuesday 26 April 2011

Quotes about Meetings

Here's the next section of quotes from my book 1000 Great Quotations for Business, Management & Training.


An updated version of the book is newly available as part of my Almost Free Kindle titles both in the UK and in the USA.



Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith, US economist, diplomat (1908-2006)



The next time you’re in a meeting, look around and identify the yes-butters, the not-knowers, and the why-notters. Why-notters move the world.

Louise Pierson, US advertising executive



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

Barnett Cocks, British political author (1907-1989)



Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.

Mark McCormack, US sports agent (1930-2003)



Why do we take notes of meetings that last for hours and call them minutes?

David Williams, British author, presenter (b. 1950)



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

Fred Allen, US supreme court justice (b. 1928)



What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness, US journalist (1907-1977)



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