Clubs and Institutions Quotes and Quotations
The ideal committee is one with me as chairman, and two other members in bed with flu. If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt. A committee of one gets things done. A camel is a horse designed by a committee. If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man. I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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