If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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