You can not define being exactly on time.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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 pride of workmanship.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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 – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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