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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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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. – Elbert Hubbard

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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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A committee is an animal with four back legs. – John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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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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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. – Katharine Whitehorn

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