It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGEliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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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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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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