Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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We are here to make another world.
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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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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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