Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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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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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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