Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers.
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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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If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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People don’t like to make mistakes.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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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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You can not define being exactly on time.
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We are here to make another world.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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