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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.

W. Edwards Deming

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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Better Cost Long Lower Quality Relationship Result Term
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.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Destroy Enterprises Job Meeting People Target Probably Them Upon
You can not define being exactly on time.
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Can Define Exactly Nit Time You
Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Increase Inflation Less Maintain Paid Price Profit Want Worker
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Fear Figure Get Whenever Will Wrong
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Crush Fun Management Out Prevail System Workplace
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Cost Decline High Mean Must Production Quality Sell Until
The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Administrative Better Increase Machine Men Productivity Sure Way
People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Like Make Mistake People
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Eliminate Include Management Numerical Objective Quote
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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Bought Disaster Everything Much Nobody Prescription Produce Quality
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Change Mandatory Necessary Not Survival
Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Pride Quality Workmanship
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Anything Biggest Hate Model Mother My never Role Taught Waste
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Company Competition Country No Shamble Worlld Year
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Compulsory Learn Neither Survival

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