All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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