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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
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A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
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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.
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When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.
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You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.
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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.
W. Edwards Deming
You cannot inspect quality into the product it is already there.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
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There is no knowledge without theory.
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The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.
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People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.
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The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
W. Edwards Deming
Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. Edwards Deming
3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.
W. Edwards Deming
Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.
W. Edwards Deming
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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