In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGNo one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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