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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Crush Fun Management Out Prevail System Workplace
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Action Behaviour Rational Reactive Relax Require Theory
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
People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Like Make Mistake People
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
If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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Give Just Machinery Maintainnece New Operation Problem Run Understand
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
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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Another Country Eliminate Improvement Position Present Productivity Retrain Secure Worker
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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All Anyone Ask Change Pride Work
The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Administrative Better Increase Machine Men Productivity Sure Way
Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Pride Quality Workmanship
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Ask Knowledge Question Should
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Change Mandatory Necessary Not Survival
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
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Best Do Enough Know Must To Your
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Compulsory Learn Neither Survival

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