People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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We are here to make another world.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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