The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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