Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
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I also served on many government committees.
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Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
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The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
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Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
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You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
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There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.
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They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
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There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
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I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
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