"Staff standards are not theological abstractions, but scientific approximations, and are evolved for the use of the l…"

"Twelve Principles of Efficiency"

"It is psychology, not soil or climate, that enables a man to raise five times as many potatoes per acre as the averag…"

"The schedule is a moral contract or agreement with the men as to a particular machine operation, rate of wages and ti…"

"The individual effort method of increasing the reward of the wage-earner includes all that is best in other methods, …"

"The type for the great newspaper is set up by linotype operators. Apprenticeship is rigorously limited. Some operator…"

"In selecting human assistants such superficialities as education, as physical strength, even antecedent morality, are…"

"The competent specialist who has supplemented natural gifts and good judgment by analysis and synthesis can perceive …"

"The estimate that at least $1,000,000 a day could be saved by the pursuit of methods of scientific management was fir…"

"With the triumph of scientific management, unions would have nothing left to do, and they would have been cleansed of…"