So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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We are here to make another world.
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