So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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