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Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
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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The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
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People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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Without theory, there are no questions.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.
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It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough action is required.
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You do not install quality you begin to work at it.
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