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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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Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
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What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
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What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
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One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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!
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Management is prediction.
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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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It's management's job to know.
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Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.
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Without questions, there is no learning.
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No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.
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To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts
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