The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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