I am forever learning and changing.
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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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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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All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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We are here to make another world.
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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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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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