Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
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
Pits
Efforts
Effort
Best
Hard
Work
More quotes by 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 are here to make another world.
W. Edwards Deming
To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
W. Edwards Deming
Management's job is to optimize the whole system.
W. Edwards Deming
Judging people does not help them.
W. Edwards Deming
The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
W. Edwards Deming
Without theory, there are no questions.
W. Edwards Deming
Change the rule and you will get a new number.
W. Edwards Deming
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
W. Edwards Deming
Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
W. Edwards Deming
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. Edwards Deming
Management is prediction.
W. Edwards Deming
We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
W. Edwards Deming
Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.
W. Edwards Deming
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
W. Edwards Deming
You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.
W. Edwards Deming
The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
W. Edwards Deming
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. Edwards Deming
Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
W. Edwards Deming