What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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