The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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 average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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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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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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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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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 result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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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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We are here to make another world.
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