All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou can not define being exactly on time.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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 average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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