So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe emphasis should be on why we do a job.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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We are here to make another world.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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 sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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