Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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We are here to make another world.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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