Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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