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Expenditures rise to meet income.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Expenditures Income Meet Rise

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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.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Agenda Any Inverse Involved Item Law Means Proportion Spent Stated Sum Time Will

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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Complexity Decay Expansion Means

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

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Government Machinery Make People Poor Rich Sovereign Use Will

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

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Being Enter Local Married Men Politics Result Solely

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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

Topics: Deny Deserve Give People Politics Think Want You

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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.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Anything Brought Dealing Devoted Having He Himself His Initiative Life Lost Man Notice Paperwork Things Whose

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 30th, 1909

Died: March 9th, 1993

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