All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhen a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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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 do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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