In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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