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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.

— Harrington Emerson The twelve principles of efficiency (1912)

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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 [etc.] calls for a new schedule.

Horace Bookwalter Drury (1918)

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 determine the man or woman.

The twelve principles of efficiency (1912)

The individual effort method of increasing the reward of the wage-earner includes all that is best in other methods, and attempts to exclude all that is objectionable. Its good points are summed up as follows

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 corporations, of States.

p. 164; ; Cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003)

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