A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
-
-
Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
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 -
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. EDWARDS DEMING