If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGLearning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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