Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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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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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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