It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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 result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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