Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGDeclining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGProfit in business comes from repeat customers.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe 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.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGI am forever learning and changing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGA man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGRational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGEliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAny manager can do well in an expanding market.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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