Meetings Quotes

• You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Discipline, Trying

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• Freedom is an endless meeting.

  Ken Wilber

  Endless

  Ken Wilber (2003). “Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free!”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.

  David A. Noebel

  Generations, Lasts, Minutes

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• You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

  Bill Gates

  Decision, Excellence

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• 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.'

  Dave Barry

  Life And Love, Business, Humor

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

  Thomas Sowell

  Procrastination, Productive Life, Productive Work

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.319, Hoover Press

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• When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

  Herbert Hoover

  Outcomes, Has Beens

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• A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

  Nancy Kline

  Thinking, Organization, Environment

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• Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Symptoms, Committees

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• Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

  Dave Barry

  Ideas, Brain, Graves

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• The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.

  Tim Cook

  Accomplished

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• I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.

  Michael Eisner

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.

  Richard Moran

  Business, Everyday, Done

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• Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

  Jack Welch

  Attitude, Perception, Energy

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• Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Change, Business, Organization

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting."

  Michael Longley

  Senior, Monday, Morning

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• A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

  Alec Issigonis

  Horse, Camels, Looks

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• It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Beats

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• The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Support, Decision

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

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Problem, Arise, Fewer

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1980). “I Have Abandoned My Search for Truth, and Am Now Looking for a Good Fantasy: More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Moving, Bored

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• The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

  Lane Kirkland

  Groups, Size, Murphys Law

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• People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Teamwork, Live Life

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions. We can talk of who is responsible for budgets, or inventory, or quality, but little is settled. It is only when we get down to the action words-measure, compute, prepare, check, endorse, recommend, approve-that we can make clear who is to do what.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Decision, Mind, Quality

  Joseph M. Juran (1964). “Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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