You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIn 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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