Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGSo 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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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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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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