Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGInnovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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