I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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