If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIn Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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