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 DEMINGMy mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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We are here to make another world.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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