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Letter "C" » C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
«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.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agenda, agendas, briefly, inverse, inverse proportion, item, stated, sum, triviality
«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.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bloom, committee, committees, organic, scattering, structure, wilts
«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.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
«When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
«Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
«It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
«Expenditures rise to meet income.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
«In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
«It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
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