The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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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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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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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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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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