Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
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
Everything
Mean
Measure
Doesn
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
W. Edwards Deming
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. Edwards Deming
It only takes a little innovation.
W. Edwards Deming
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
Nothing happens without personal transformation.
W. Edwards Deming
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.
W. Edwards Deming
We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
W. Edwards Deming
You do not install knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.
W. Edwards Deming
It's management's job to know.
W. Edwards Deming
Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
W. Edwards Deming
Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
W. Edwards Deming
We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.
W. Edwards Deming
A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
W. Edwards Deming
Manage the cause, not the result.
W. Edwards Deming
Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
W. Edwards Deming
You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.
W. Edwards Deming
No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.
W. Edwards Deming
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
W. Edwards Deming
Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
W. Edwards Deming