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| Perfection is acheived only on the point of collapse. - C. N. Parkinson | |
| Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time alloted it. | |
| Karl's version of Parkinson's Law: Work expands to exceed the time alloted it. | |
| Parkinson's Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. | |
| Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done. | |
| A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom. -- Parkinson | |
| Dealing with the problem of pure staff accumulation, all our researches ... point to an average increase of 5.75% per year. -- C.N. Parkinson | |
| Recent research has tended to show that the Abominable No-Man is being replaced by the Prohibitive Procrastinator. -- C.N. Parkinson | |
| The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. -- C.N. Parkinson | |
| Work expands to fill the time available. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinson, "The Economist", 1955 | |
