The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

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

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

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

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.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

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.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

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.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

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

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

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

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

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.