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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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Biography

Author Profession: Historian
Nationality: British
Born: June 30, 1909
Died: March 9, 1993

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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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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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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Agenda, Any, Briefly, Inverse, Involved, Item, Law, Proportion, Spent, Stated, Sum, Time, Triviality, Will