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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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People are entitled to joy in work.
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The process is not just the sum of its parts.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.
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Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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Manage the cause, not the result.
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Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
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If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
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There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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