Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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We are here to make another world.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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