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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
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Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
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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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We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
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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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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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We must satisfy our customers.
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
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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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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
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Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
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We are here to make another world.
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It's management's job to know.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individuals contribution far more than the individual himself.
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People need to know what their jobs are.
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The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
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