The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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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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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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