Keyword: Meetings

He who shouts loudest has the floor.

A meeting lasts at least 1 1/2 hours, however short the agenda.

The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Those who are unable to learn from past meetings are condemned to repeat them.

The only important result of a meeting is agreement about next steps.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Meetings are a great trap; however, they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist

If you have enough meetings over a long enough period of time, the meetings become more important than the problem the meetings were intended to solve.

The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting.