Expansion means complexity and complexity decay..

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige..

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….

Expenditures rise to meet income..

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..

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, alt….

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to….

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless..

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members..

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes….

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 t….

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse..

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body..

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

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues..

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available..

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,….

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic….

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done..

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty..