The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWe are here to make another world.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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