Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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