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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
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Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
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Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
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The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
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