Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

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.

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

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."