My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGQuality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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