Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGIf you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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We are here to make another world.
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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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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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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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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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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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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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The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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