If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWe are here to make another world.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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We are here to make another world.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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