Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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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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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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