Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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We are here to make another world.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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 prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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