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.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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 result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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