Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.
-- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

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We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.
-- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
Don't waste your one beautiful life.
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

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