C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

British - Historian | July 30, 1909 - March 9, 1993

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

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TimeWillInvolvedAgendaSumSpent

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.

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LifeManLostInitiativeAnything

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

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WorkTimeCompletionAvailableFill

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.

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TimeLawWillInvolvedSumMeans

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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DenialDelayFormDeadliest

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.

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NatureFlowersSeedPlantBloom

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

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BetterThanHas-Been

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

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ManagementGreaterFunctionSmaller

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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ExpansionComplexityDecayMeans

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

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SocietyBoredomProductSenseChief

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

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OpportunityManDecisionsImportant

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

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PoliticsPeopleThinkYouWantGive

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