Meetings Quotes

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

  Bill Gates

  Decision, Excellence

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

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Symptoms, Committees

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.

  Tim Cook

  Accomplished

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• Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours

  Tony Robbins

  People, Needs, Engaging

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Nature, Order

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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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• Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Stress, Goal, Achievement

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

  Dave Barry

  Business, Self, Organization

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fall, Numbers, People

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.213

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• Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

  John Bolton

  Preparation

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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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