Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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We are here to make another world.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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