"There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions."

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Source : "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

#World Quotes #Waste Quotes #Ill Quotes

“I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.”
“Money is the wise man's religion.”
“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
“A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields.”
“There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.”
“Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world”

Source : Attributed to Matthew Arnold's "Literature and Dogma". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 216-218, 1922.
“Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'”
“I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.”

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