Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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