Quote by Frederick W. Taylor
"The science of handling pig iron is not a hypothesis or theory that must be built up in the minds of the pig-iron handlers themselves."
More from Frederick W. Taylor
"The greatest waste in America is the waste of effort by not systematizing work."
"The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for the employee."
"In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first."
"Hardly anything can be more striking than the difference between the realities of production and the dreams of those managing the business."