C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes & Sayings

17 most famous C. Northcote Parkinson quotes and sayings (historian). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”

“It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.”

“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.”

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”

“Expenditures rise to meet income.”

“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.”

“Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.”

“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.”