American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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 is everyone’s responsibility.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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