The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGI am forever learning and changing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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