If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAll customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGExport anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAny manager can do well in an expanding market.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGPeople don’t like to make mistakes.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYour workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGHold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIt is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGMy mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGA man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGA bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIn 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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