Parkinson's Fourth Law: The Number Of People

The Man Who Is Denied The Opportunity Of Taking Decisions Of Importance Begins To Regard As Important The Decisions He Is Allowed To Take.

Administrators Make Work For Each Other So That They Can Multiply The Number Of Their Subordinates And Enhance Their Prestige.

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, Scattering The Seed From Which Other Committees Will Bloom In Their Turn.

Expenditure Rises To Meet Income.

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 Eradicate The Weeds. Enough For Him If He Can Tell Us Just How Fast They Grow.