Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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