Taylor was born in 1856, to a wealthy, but devout Quaker family in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
Taylor passed the entrance examination to Harvard College but did not enroll, instead becoming apprenticed to a machinist and patternmaker at the Enterprise Hydraulic Works in Philadelphia.
Considering himself a reformer, Taylor preached the ideals and principles of his system of management until his death from influenza in 1915.
Taylor believed that contemporary management was amateurish and should be studied as a discipline, that workers should cooperate with management (and hence would not need trade unions), and that the best results would come from the partnership between a trained and qualified management and a cooperative and innovative workforce.
Taylor was a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, founded in 1900.
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