Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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