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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.
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 copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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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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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.
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Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
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Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
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