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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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.
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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.
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It's not enough to do your best you must know what to do & then do your best.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
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The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
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Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
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Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.
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Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
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There is no knowledge without theory.
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Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
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Judging people does not help them.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
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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.
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Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
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We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
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