Quote

The most valuable currency of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

W. Edwards Deming

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Leadership
Initiative
Highest
Currency
Leader
Priorities
Responsibility
Develop
Moral
Valuable
Every
Organization
Solemn
People
Members
Priority
Creativity
Maximum

More quotes by W. Edwards Deming

Image
Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, Figuring out how to think about the problem.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
You do not install quality you begin to work at it.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned it must be led.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
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.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
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
Image
Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Any two people have different ideas of what is important.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Experience by itself teaches nothing.
W. Edwards Deming
Image
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
W. Edwards Deming