#Meetings Quotes

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

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

“I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.”

“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.”

“One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.”

“One either meets or one works.”

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

“If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.”

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

“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.'”

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

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