If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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