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

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

F.W. Taylor (1911) in letter to John Fritz, who just published his autobiography; Cited in: Frank Barkley Copley, Frederick W. Taylor, father of scientific management https://archive.org/stream/frederickwtaylor01copl, 1923. p. v.

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American mechanical engineer and tennis player 1856–1915

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