If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGRational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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We are here to make another world.
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