People don’t like to make mistakes.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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 result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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