So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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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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