C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by C. Northcote Parkinson:

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


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


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#e50fefb1

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#3e8d213a

Expenditures rise to meet income.
~C. Northcote Parkinson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#1ad2242c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#783ada7b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#25519da3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#71d0876e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#82165f69

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#2d6c6886

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#b524756e

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
~C. Northcote Parkinson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#0de44ce2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#f5658037

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#af88fc83

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#440c4246

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#3281137f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-northcote-parkinson-quotes/#ad4ea75d

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