Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGAny manager can do well in an expanding market.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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