Expenditure rises to meet income.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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.
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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 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.
