My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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