All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGYour workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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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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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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