I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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