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Quote by Elbert Hubbard
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

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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

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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

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Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will

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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. – Barnett Cocks, attributed

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