Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMINGRational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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We are here to make another world.
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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