I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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