Quotes About Scientific Management

#1. There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.

Paul Gibbons

#2. Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

Jill Lepore

#3. The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

Catharine Beecher

#4. I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#5. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

Lao-Tzu

#6. I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

Ari Fleischer

#7. What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Julian Barnes

#9. Your presence we will always miss, but the memories I will treasure, we had some happy times dear friend knowing you was a gift of pleasure.

Susan Smith

#10. I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

Steve Kazee

#11. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say it
only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of the power. If there was some different way of writing ... Or else something else to write about.

Aldous Huxley

#12. At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

Matthew Stewart

#13. Around 1900 a sales executive discovered a "scientific" principle of sales management. It received a lot of publicity and even found its way into textbooks. The principle was this: There is one best way to sell a product. Find the best way. Then never deviate from it.

David J. Schwartz

#14. It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!

Tove Lo

#15. are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing

Hettie Jones

#16. A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

Benjamin Franklin

#17. But when he kissed me? I didn't feel lost in him the way I get lost in you.

Christina Lauren

#18. This night the password was silence, and the soldier at the gate responded with silence to Cincinnatus' silence and let him pass; likewise at all the other gates.

Vladimir Nabokov

#19. Anachron's Law:
There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it.
Anachron's Corollary:
There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.

George Hammond