The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGSo nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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So 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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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 do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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We are here to make another world.
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