Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. - C. Northcote Parkinson 1 Share Now -
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. - C. Northcote Parkinson 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. - C. Northcote Parkinson 4 Share Now -
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. - C. Northcote Parkinson 5 Share Now -
