People don’t like to make mistakes.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe emphasis should be on why we do a job.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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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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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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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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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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