A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.