The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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 sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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