| Quote | Author |
| A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. | Indira Gandi (1917-1984) |
| He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it. | Mark McCormack (1930-2003) |
| Men of few words are the best. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |