If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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