So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGDeclining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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