Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMINGHold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGResearch shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGExport anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGSo nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAmerican management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIn 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWe are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING