The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is pride of workmanship.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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We are here to make another world.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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