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W Edwards Deming Inspirational Quotes (223)

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Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
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Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
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Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
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The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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There is no knowledge without theory.
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Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
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He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
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Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
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If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.
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Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.
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Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
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We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
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You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.
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