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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
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W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
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Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
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What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
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Without questions, there is no learning.
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We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
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People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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It's management's job to know.
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Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.
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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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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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Management is prediction.
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Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
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People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
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