A Quote by Jerry Brown

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

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Available Briefcases Fill Paper Volume

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Jerry Brown
American - Politician
Born: April 7, 1938

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

Deniece Schofield

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Shirley Conran

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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."

C. Northcote Parkinson

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

Ian Somerhalder

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

John Buchanan Robinson

For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

Warren Buffett

The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

Abraham Lincoln

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Nathan Myhrvold

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

Ralph Peters

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Paul Anka

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