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 DEMINGSo nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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We are here to make another world.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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 prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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