My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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 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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