Expenditure rises to meet income.

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

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

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 fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

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