Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGNo one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGMy mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGA man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIn 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGI am forever learning and changing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWe are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING