It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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We are here to make another world.
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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 necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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