Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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 emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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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.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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We are here to make another world.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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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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