Keyword: Meetings

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
Intelligence People

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

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

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

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.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist
Work

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

He who shouts loudest has the floor.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Places Problems

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

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
Activities People Sex

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

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

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor
Football Sports