What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
W. EDWARDS DEMINGProfit in business comes from repeat customers.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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