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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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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Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
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A rule should suit the purpose.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
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Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
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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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Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
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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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When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.
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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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