Amount Quote by Henry Gantt

The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men…

— Sumner Slichter

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the…

— Charles Babbage

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of…

— Adam Smith

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing…

— Akio Morita

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the…

— Peter Drucker

“To maximise output, every organisation will strive to obtain its necessary raw materials, labour and machinery at the lowest possible cost and combine them…

— Alain de Botton

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root…

— Eric Ries

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest…

— Louis O. Kelso

We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that…

— Edward Stettinius, Jr

...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very…

— Dan Ariely

“Every day each of us in his own activity is engaged in trying to reduce the effort it requires to accomplish a given result.…

— Henry Hazlitt