Frederick W. Taylor

"Efficiency is not cruelty; it is respect for human dignity and time."

"The greatest crime in management is the under-utilization of human ability."

"To improve continuously, one must measure continuously."

"The barrier between management and labor is built by misunderstanding on both sides."

"A worker treated as a machine will eventually behave like one."

"The scientific approach to work is not the enemy of craft; it is craft perfected."

"Prosperity shared is prosperity multiplied."

"The man who fears change has already begun to decline."

"The factory is not a place to build things; it is a place to build men."

"Inefficiency is democratic in its distribution; it affects all classes equally."

"The worker's knowledge of his task is the first tool of management."

"Resistance to new methods is the last refuge of the incompetent."

"The most expensive worker is not the one who earns the most but the one who produces the least."

"Mutual benefit is the only sustainable basis for any working relationship."

"The science of work is the science of human nature applied to production."

"A system that produces resentment produces waste."

"The true measure of management is not profit but human development."

"To work without purpose is to exist without meaning."

"The worker who cannot see the value of his labor will never give his best."

"Time wasted by one worker is time stolen from many."

"The foreman is not a master but a guide and facilitator."

"In the factory as in life, clarity precedes success."

"The greatest inefficiency lies in doing things that need not be done at all."

"Fair treatment of workers is not charity; it is good business."

"The worker elevated by education becomes a partner, not merely an employee."

"Systems fail not from bad design but from incomplete implementation."

"A man's potential is infinite until he accepts limitations."

"The factory of tomorrow requires the minds of today."

"Waste of material is visible; waste of human effort is often invisible."

"The harmony between capital and labor is the harmony between profit and purpose."