Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGWhat should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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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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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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