Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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