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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
W.E. Deming
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Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
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We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
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Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data.
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
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You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
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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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What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
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Managing by results only makes things worse.
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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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The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
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Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
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You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.
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We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
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Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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To copy is to invite disaster.
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