My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAny manager can do well in an expanding market.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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