Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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