Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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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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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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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We are here to make another world.
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