Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGProfit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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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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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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