The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIn 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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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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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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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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We are here to make another world.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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 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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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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