Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Expenditure rises to meet income.
The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date...
Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
It is the busiest man who has time to spare.