My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGLack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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