You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe emphasis should be on why we do a job.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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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.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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