Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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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