Available Quote by 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 mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Expenditures rise to meet income.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

— 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

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

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

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

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

— C. Northcote Parkinson