My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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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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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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