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Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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
The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Expenditure rises to meet income.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
It is the busiest man who has time to spare.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
— Paul Goldberger
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Your talent is a blank check.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus.
— Cynthia Hand
The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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
Expenditures rise to meet income.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
— David Ricardo
The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
I love you," I said, and stabbed him.
— Sarah J. Maas
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
— C. Northcote Parkinson