A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe emphasis should be on why we do a job.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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