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01Undated

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson / quote

02Undated

Expenditure rises to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson / quote

03Undated

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson / quote

04Undated

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 / quote

05Undated

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

C. Northcote Parkinson / quote

06Undated

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

C. Northcote Parkinson / quote

07Undated

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson / quote