Quote#Time
Factories today are being run less and less by the authority of…
Quote byClinton Edgar Woods · 1863–1927
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Organizing a factory (1905), p. 1.
English (original)
Factories today are being run less and less by the authority of experience only, and more and more by the authority of figures and facts. The superintendent and manager of long experience and intuitive knowledge only is forced to make room for the younger man, of less experience, perhaps, but who modernizes his work by the jurisdiction of figures alone.
— Clinton Edgar Woods
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