If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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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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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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