No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGRational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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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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