Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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