C. Northcote Parkinson was a famous Historian from United Kingdom, who lived between June 30, 1909 and March 9, 1993. He/she became 83 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Northcote Parkinson, under the main topic Work.
17 Famous quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial"
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay"
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"
"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take"
"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 chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom"
"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse"
"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married"
"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich"
"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was"
"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want"
"Expenditures rise to meet income"
"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body"
"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved"
"The smaller the function, the greater the management"
"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"
"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"
