Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is everyone’s responsibility.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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 sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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