W. Edwards Deming on profit
W. Edwards Deming51 quotes“Profit in business comes from repeat customers.”
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming People don’t like to make mistakes.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming 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.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming We are here to make another world.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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