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C. Northcote Parkinson Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Jul 30, 1909
  • Died: Mar 9, 1993

Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar in public administration and management.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

politics

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

work

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

society

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

politics