A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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