You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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