Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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We are here to make another world.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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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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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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