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Industrial Engineer Inspirational Quotes (241)

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The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.
Taiichi Ohno
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Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
W. Edwards Deming
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Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.
Taiichi Ohno
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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.
W. Edwards Deming
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I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.
Taiichi Ohno
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
W. Edwards Deming
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
W. Edwards Deming
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming
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Experience by itself teaches nothing.
W. Edwards Deming
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
W. Edwards Deming
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The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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There is no knowledge without theory.
W. Edwards Deming
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Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
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