You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhen a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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