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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.

W. Edwards Deming

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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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Anywhere Attitude Foolish Good Knowledge Manage Manager No Prevail Process Production Special
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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All Anyone Ask Change Pride Work
People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Like Make Mistake People
Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Any Manager Expand Market Well
In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Another Country Eliminate Improvement Position Present Productivity Retrain Secure Worker
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Climate Contribution Individual Influence More Organisation Research Show
You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Cost Customer Dissatisfied Know replace
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Anything Biggest Hate Model Mother My never Role Taught Waste
Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Come Customer Innovation Producer
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Accountable Everybody Hold Ridiculous
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Can Describe Do Know Process
The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Big Customer First Good One People Place Problem Realise Some Where
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Action Behaviour Rational Reactive Relax Require Theory
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Company Competition Country No Shamble Worlld Year
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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Give Just Machinery Maintainnece New Operation Problem Run Understand
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Eliminate Include Management Numerical Objective Quote

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