The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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