Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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We are here to make another world.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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