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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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We are here to make another world.
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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.
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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