The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is everyone’s responsibility.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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