The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGResearch shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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