You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGI am forever learning and changing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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We are here to make another world.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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