All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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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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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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