My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGExport anything to a friendly country except American management.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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