In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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We are here to make another world.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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