If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGI predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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