What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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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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