C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Denial, Delay, Deadliest

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Politics, Give, Deserve

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Life, Lost, Himself

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Work, Time, Completion

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.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Nature, Rather, Takes

Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Rise, Meet, Income

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.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Time, Law, Means

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Government, Rich, Poor

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Politics, Men, Married

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Society, Sense, Boredom

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Important, Decisions, Taking

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Means, Complexity, Decay

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Point, Perfection, Achieved

The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Greater, Management, Function

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Time, Involved, Sum

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Power, Real, Body

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 30, 1909

Died: March 9, 1993

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