Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
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
Management
Courses
Teach
Wrong
Problem
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
In God we trust all others bring data.
W. Edwards Deming
Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
W. Edwards Deming
Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
W. Edwards Deming
Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality starts in the boardroom.
W. Edwards Deming
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
W. Edwards Deming
We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
W. Edwards Deming
Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
W. Edwards Deming
You do not install knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. Edwards Deming
If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.
W. Edwards Deming
Change the rule and you will get a new number.
W. Edwards Deming
The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
W. Edwards Deming
You can expect what you inspect.
W. Edwards Deming
You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.
W. Edwards Deming
Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.
W. Edwards Deming
Managing by results only makes things worse.
W. Edwards Deming