Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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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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