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Delay is the deadliest form of denial. C. Northcote Parkinson Procrastination 162
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. C. Northcote Parkinson Agenda 114
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. C. Northcote Parkinson Politics 87
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson Work 83
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. C. Northcote Parkinson Government 82
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. C. Northcote Parkinson Committee 80
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. C. Northcote Parkinson Achieved 80
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. C. Northcote Parkinson Anything 77
Expenditures rise to meet income. C. Northcote Parkinson Value 76
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. C. Northcote Parkinson Concentration 71
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. C. Northcote Parkinson Automated 69
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. C. Northcote Parkinson Politics 56
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson Function 56
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 Money 55
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. C. Northcote Parkinson Power 39
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 Decision 26

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