What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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 big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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