My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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