The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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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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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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