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 average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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We are here to make another world.
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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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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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