Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGA man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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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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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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