Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
Composer
Economist
Engineer
Industrial Engineer
Statistician
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
Without
Management
Questions
Asks
Knowledge
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
W. Edwards Deming
I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!
W. Edwards Deming
Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
W. Edwards Deming
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
W. Edwards Deming
Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.
W. Edwards Deming
Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.
W. Edwards Deming
We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
W. Edwards Deming
Survival is optional. No one has to change.
W. Edwards Deming
We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.
W. Edwards Deming
Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
W. Edwards Deming
Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
W. Edwards Deming
In God we trust all others bring data.
W. Edwards Deming
Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
W. Edwards Deming
Management is prediction.
W. Edwards Deming
People work in the system. Management creates the system
W. Edwards Deming
You can not hear what you do not understand.
W. Edwards Deming
You can expect what you inspect.
W. Edwards Deming
Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
W. Edwards Deming