When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share
