So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhat should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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 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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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