I am forever learning and changing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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