The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGEliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
-
-
In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
People don’t like to make mistakes.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMING