Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGI predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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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