Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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We are here to make another world.
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