The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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 can not define being exactly on time.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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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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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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