The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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 average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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