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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
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One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
When we cooperate, everybody wins.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
W. Edwards Deming
You can not define being exactly on time.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
People need to know how their job contributes.
W. Edwards Deming
The customer is the most important part of the production line.
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Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
W. Edwards Deming
Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
W. Edwards Deming
It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
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It's management's job to know.
W. Edwards Deming
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
W. Edwards Deming
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
W. Edwards Deming
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
W. Edwards Deming
Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.
W. Edwards Deming
The most important things cannot be measured.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
