In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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