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W Edwards Deming Inspirational Quotes (223)

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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
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Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay
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A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
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We are here to make another world.
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A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers
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The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
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Quality starts in the boardroom.
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The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.
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Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
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Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
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All models are wrong some models are useful.
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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
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Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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