The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhen a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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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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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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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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