A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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 sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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We are here to make another world.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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