Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe 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.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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We are here to make another world.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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