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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
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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The aim should be to work on the method of management.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
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We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
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We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
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We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.
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