The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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We are here to make another world.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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