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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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We are here to make another world.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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