Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGInnovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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