If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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We are here to make another world.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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