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W Edwards Deming Inspirational Quotes (223)

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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
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The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
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It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
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I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!
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When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.
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People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
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A system can not understand itself.
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You can expect what you inspect.
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Without theory, there are no questions.
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Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?
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A goal without a method is nonsense.
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You can not hear what you do not understand.
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One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.
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We want best efforts guided by theory.
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Management's job is to optimize the whole system.
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Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
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Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.
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Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
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People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.
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Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned it must be led.
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Management does not know what a system is.
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