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 DEMINGThe emphasis should be on why we do a job.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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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 result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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