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That there is a difference between the average and the first class man is known to all employers, but that the first class man can do in most cases from two to four times as much is known to few, and is fully realized only by those who have made a thorough and scientific study of the possibilities of men.

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

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I think no book is more stimulating than the history of a devoted and successful life.

F.W. Taylor (1911)

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

The Principles of Scientific Management, title page, 1911.

These new duties are grouped under four heads

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