Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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