Frederick W. Taylor

"Science removes the guesswork; experience removes the doubt."

"The worker who understands 'why' works with his mind as well as his hands."

"Progress is not evolution; it is revolution applied systematically."

"The measure of a system is not its efficiency but its sustainability."

"A worker content in his labor is a worker productive in his labor."

"The future belongs to those who embrace measurement and science."

"Inefficiency is a choice; excellence is a discipline."

"The worker's dignity is preserved through fair compensation and meaningful work."

"To manage is to predict; to predict is to measure; to measure is to know."

"The greatest revolution in industry will be the evolution of the human element."

"A system that ignores human nature will eventually be ignored by humans."

"The worker and employer are not adversaries but co-creators of value."

"Science applied to organization is the answer to labor disputes."

"The man who stops learning stops growing; the business that stops improving stops existing."

"Time is the one resource that cannot be manufactured or recovered once lost."

"Excellence requires not inspiration but perspiration guided by principle."

"The worker's contribution should be recognized in his compensation and his position."

"To be ignorant of measurement is to be ignorant of one's own business."

"The path to prosperity is not through the exploitation of labor but through its elevation."

"A worker given responsibility becomes responsible; a worker given trust becomes trustworthy."

"The science of work frees man from the tyranny of tradition."

"The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee."

"It is only through enforced standardization of methods, enforced adoption of the best implements and working conditions, and enforced cooperation that this faster work can be assured."

"The average workman will work hard enough when he fully understands that this plan will, when in full operation, double his wages."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking."

"Science is not a collection of laws, a catalogue of unrelated facts. It is a creation of the human mind, with its freely invented ideas and concepts."

"The one best way to accomplish any task can be determined through careful observation and study."

"In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first."

"Soldiering is the greatest evil with which the workingman has to contend."

"The best management is a true science, resting upon clearly defined laws, rules, and principles."