Quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson

C. Northcote Parkinson

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

Committees

Shady

Spring

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Expenditures

Income

Survival

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Decision

Delay

Important

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

Essentials

Firsts

Imagination

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

Business

Foundation

Successful

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Men

Spares

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Government

People

Use

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

Diplomats

Loyalty

Quality

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.

Agendas

Law

Mean

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.

Initiative

Life Is

Men

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Available

Body

Business

Committees

Communication

Decision

Delay

Diplomats

Essentials

Expenditures

Firsts

Foundation

Government

Imagination

Important

Income

Initiative

Issues

Law

Life Is

Loyalty

Matter

Mean

Men

Nice

Organization

People

Poison

Political

Politics

Quality

Real

Rumor

Shady

Spares

Spring

Standards

Successful

Survival

Use

Vacuums

Void

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Quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson

C. Northcote Parkinson

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

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.

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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