Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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