Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGSo nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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