Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGRational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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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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