Meeting Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old meeting quotes, meeting sayings, and meeting proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions. Patrick Lencioni
Meeting someone with the same mindset as you is rare. Anonymous
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture. William P. Leahy
Meeting another human is always a sacred event. Bryant H. McGill
Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings. Ashleigh Brilliant
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
Journeys end in lovers meeting. William Shakespeare
Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know. A.A. Milne
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sewell
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell
We bring together the best ideas, turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. Jack Welch
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. Robert Copeland
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. Lester J. Pourciau
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting. Herbert Hoover
A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset. Nancy Kline
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
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
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. Peter Drucker
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan
All real living is meeting. Martin Buber
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. Milton Berle
A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead. Carl Jung
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all. Boyd K. Packer
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard
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
Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work. William Daniels
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Bottome
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin