Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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We are here to make another world.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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