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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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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
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Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
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Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.
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3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.
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Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
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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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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
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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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