No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou can not define being exactly on time.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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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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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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