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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.

W. Edwards Deming

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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Compulsory Learn Neither Survival
No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Cost Defective Do Em Know No One Product Tell You
Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Pride Quality Workmanship
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Company Competition Country No Shamble Worlld Year
You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Cost Customer Dissatisfied Know replace
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Accountable Everybody Hold Ridiculous
Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Boardroom Decide One Origin People Quality Responsible Two
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Mistake Only Stable System Tamper Tell When Worker
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Anything Biggest Hate Model Mother My never Role Taught Waste
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Ask Discover Ig Know Not Nothing Question Right You
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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Anywhere Attitude Foolish Good Knowledge Manage Manager No Prevail Process Production Special
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Change Mandatory Necessary Not Survival
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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Destroy Enterprises Job Meeting People Target Probably Them Upon
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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Ago Five Four Manufacture Over Predict Protection Scream Took World Year
All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Al Competitor Customer Else Expect Expectation Know Nothing Only
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Bad Every Good Neat Person System Time

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