Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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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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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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