A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAmerican management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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