All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGResearch shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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