C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Expenditures rise to 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."