Quotes with meetings

  • And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.
  • Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
  • Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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  • Arthur Cayley And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • James L. Hayes Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time.
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  • George F. Will Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • George F. Will Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barack Obama Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
    On December 1, 2007, at Heartland Democratic Forum
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Albert Ellis Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Dave Barry 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
    American humorist, writer
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Thomas Sowell People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Brad Feld When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • William Goldman Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Ben Shapiro Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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