If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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 emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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 average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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