Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGExport anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGMy mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGLearning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGCustomer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhen a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGResearch shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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