Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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
Action
Predictions
Make
Statistics
Useful
Basis
Provide
Bases
Thus
Function
Statistician
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
When we cooperate, everybody wins.
W. Edwards Deming
We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
W. Edwards Deming
The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
W. Edwards Deming
Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
W. Edwards Deming
Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
W. Edwards Deming
A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.
W. Edwards Deming
Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
W. Edwards Deming
All models are wrong some models are useful.
W. Edwards Deming
We are here to make another world.
W. Edwards Deming
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
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.
W. Edwards Deming
People need to know how their job contributes.
W. Edwards Deming
Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
W. Edwards Deming
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
W. Edwards Deming
The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
We must understand variation.
W. Edwards Deming
Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming