You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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