If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGA bad system will beat a good person every time.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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