Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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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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