Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGInnovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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