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W Edwards Deming Inspirational Quotes (223)

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Without questions, there is no learning.
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You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.
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You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.
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Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
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You do not install knowledge.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
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Knowledge needs to be a verb.
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You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.
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One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another.
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Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.
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The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
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A leader is a coach, not a judge.
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Lack of knowledge - that is the problem.
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