Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGA bad system will beat a good person every time.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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