So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGProfit in business comes from repeat customers.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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 system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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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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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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