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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

It is the busiest man who has time to spare. — C. Northcote Parkinson

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

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

Expenditure rises to meet income. — 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

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. — 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

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty. — C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless. — C. Northcote Parkinson

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

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

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