5 quotes by 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

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“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.” — C. Northcote Parkinson

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“Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.” — C. Northcote Parkinson

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“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” — C. Northcote Parkinson

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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” — C. Northcote Parkinson

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