C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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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.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Author Details:
Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
British Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 30, 1909
Date of Death:
March 9, 1993
Nationality:
British
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Related Authors:
Lord Acton
A. J. P. Taylor
Arnold J. Toynbee
Arthur Helps
E. P. Thompson
B. H. Liddell Hart
Eric Hobsbawm
Alan Bullock
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Select C. Northcote Parkinson Quotations:
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Quote Keywords:
Anything,
Brought,
Ceased,
Dealing,
Devoted,
Having,
Himself,
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Initiative,
Life,
Lost,
Man,
Notice,
Paperwork,
Things,
Whose
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Dictionary Links:
Anything,
Brought,
Ceased,
Dealing,
Devoted,
Having,
Himself,
His,
Initiative,
Life,
Lost,
Man,
Notice,
Whose
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All C. Northcote Parkinson Quotations:
A committee is organic rather than...
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
In politics people give you what...
It is better to be a...
Make the people sovereign and the...
Men enter local politics solely as...
Perfection of planned layout is achieved...
The chief product of an automated...
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated...
The man who is denied the...
The man whose life is devoted...
The smaller the function, the greater...
Time spent on any item of...
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21...
Work expands so as to fill...
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