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.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYou know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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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 don’t like to make mistakes.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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