Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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