Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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