C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 30, 1909 - March 9, 1993

Topics

ManagementGreaterFunctionSmaller

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Meg Ryan

MyselfThoughtI CanPersonOutWho

I hate wasting time.

Robert Plant

TimeHateWasting TimeWasting

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

Stephen Stills

GreatHappySongThoughtHarmonyUp

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

LifeScienceBiologyLivingMore

People will feel the way they feel.

LL Cool J

PeopleFeelWillWay

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

Bonnie Langford

MorningFreedomTimeMyselfMeRoad

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

WisdomPowerThoughtResolutionOut

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

Anton du Beke

SchoolLeftSoonAircraftMaking

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

Annie Jacobsen

LegendCountryConnectedSecret

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Petra Stunt

HumbleMomGoUniversityBeginnings

I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.

Tulsi Tanti

TeamManagementGrowTryStructure

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

TruthFoolPurposeIdeasAccept

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