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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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Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.
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You cannot inspect quality into the product it is already there.
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Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
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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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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.
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We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
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A rule should suit the purpose.
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The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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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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Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
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Knowledge is the key.
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Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.
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We are here to make another world.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
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People need to know how their job contributes.
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There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.
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Without questions, there is no learning.
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