The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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