Harrington Emerson

"It is psychology, not soil or climate, that enables a man to raise five times as many potatoes per acre as the average in his own state."

"The schedule is a moral contract or agreement with the men as to a particular machine operation, rate of wages and time. Any change in men calls for a new schedule."

"Staff standards are not theological abstractions, but scientific approximations, and are evolved for the use of the line, the sole justification of the standards being that they will make line work mo…"

"The type for the great newspaper is set up by linotype operators. Apprenticeship is rigorously limited. Some operators can never get beyond the 2500-em class, others with no more personal effort can s…"

"The competent specialist who has supplemented natural gifts and good judgment by analysis and synthesis can perceive attitudes and proclivities even in the very young, much more readily in those semi-…"

"We have not put our trust in Kings; let us not put it in natural resources, but grasp the truth that exhaustless wealth lies in the latent and as yet undeveloped capacities of individuals, of corporat…"

"Twelve Principles of Efficiency"

"In selecting human assistants such superficialities as education, as physical strength, even antecedent morality, are not as important as the inner attitudes, proclivities, character, which after all …"