You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is pride of workmanship.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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 enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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