Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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