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

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

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

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

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.

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