Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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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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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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