Cyril Northcote Parkinson
British naval historian
Lived from: 1909 - 1993
Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 30 july 1909 Died: 9 march 1993
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.''
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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.
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An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
Source: Management Science Journal, October 1960― Cyril Northcote Parkinson -
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.
Source: Mrs. Parkinsons Law (1968)― Cyril Northcote Parkinson -
It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
Source: The Economist (November 1955)― Cyril Northcote Parkinson -
It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
Source: Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962― Cyril Northcote Parkinson -
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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Successful research attracts the bigger grant which makes further research impossible.
Source: Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962― Cyril Northcote Parkinson -
The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
Source: New York Times Magazine Now Parkinsons Telephone Law, 12 April 1964― Cyril Northcote Parkinson -
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.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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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.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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