Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGEliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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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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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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