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People work in the system. Management creates the system
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
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Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.
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Knowledge needs to be a verb.
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To copy is to invite disaster.
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People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
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Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
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Quality starts in the boardroom.
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Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.
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The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
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