So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is pride of workmanship.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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