Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe emphasis should be on why we do a job.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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