Quotes by : C. Northcote Parkinson

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

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes....

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

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

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

Expenditure rises to meet income.