In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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