A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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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 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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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