Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is everyone’s responsibility.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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