Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGNo one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
-
-
Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
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.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING