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.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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