In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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