Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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 pride of workmanship.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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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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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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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 know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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