Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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