Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAmerican management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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We are here to make another world.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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