The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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