When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGInnovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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 result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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