Busiest Man Quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson

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C. Northcote Parkinson has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial…
• Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business…
• The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.
• No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not…
• Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan…
• It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
• Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be…
• Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
• When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
• Expenditures rise to meet income.
• The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

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