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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Ask Knowledge Question Should
People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Like Make Mistake People
I am forever learning and changing.
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Change Forever Learn
Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Come Customer Innovation Producer
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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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
Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Customer Good Least Mean Quality Sell Some Try Will
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
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Best Do Enough Know Must To Your
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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All Anyone Ask Change Pride Work
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Better Cost Long Lower Quality Relationship Result Term
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Mistake Only Stable System Tamper Tell When Worker
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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Destroy Enterprises Job Meeting People Target Probably Them Upon
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Crush Fun Management Out Prevail System Workplace
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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Ago Five Four Manufacture Over Predict Protection Scream Took World Year
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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Bought Disaster Everything Much Nobody Prescription Produce Quality
Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Anything Country Except Export Friendly Management
Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Boast Bring Customer Friend Project Service Them
You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Cost Customer Dissatisfied Know replace
Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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Everyone Quality Responsibility
All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Al Competitor Customer Else Expect Expectation Know Nothing Only
Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Any Manager Expand Market Well
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Eliminate Include Management Numerical Objective Quote

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