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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.

W. Edwards Deming

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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Action Behaviour Rational Reactive Relax Require Theory
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Accountable Everybody Hold Ridiculous
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Crush Fun Management Out Prevail System Workplace
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Better Cost Long Lower Quality Relationship Result Term
In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Another Country Eliminate Improvement Position Present Productivity Retrain Secure Worker
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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Bought Disaster Everything Much Nobody Prescription Produce Quality
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Company Competition Country No Shamble Worlld Year
Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Pride Quality Workmanship
All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Al Competitor Customer Else Expect Expectation Know Nothing Only
Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Business Come Customer Profit Repeat
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Ask Cd Custom Customer Electric Ever Expectation Light Nonsense Pneumatic Tire Vcr
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Average Country Day Fiftym Interruption Nothing Percent Seventh Work Worker
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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Ago Five Four Manufacture Over Predict Protection Scream Took World Year
Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Boast Bring Customer Friend Project Service Them
You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Cost Customer Dissatisfied Know replace
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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Cost Decline High Mean Must Production Quality Sell Until

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