Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
W. Edwards Deming
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
Composer
Economist
Engineer
Industrial Engineer
Statistician
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
Wrong
Help
Experience
Helping
Doe
Things
Management
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
Any two people have different ideas of what is important.
W. Edwards Deming
It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
W. Edwards Deming
A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.
W. Edwards Deming
To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.
W. Edwards Deming
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
W. Edwards Deming
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
It's management's job to know.
W. Edwards Deming
All models are wrong some models are useful.
W. Edwards Deming
...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
W. Edwards Deming
Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
W. Edwards Deming
Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
W. Edwards Deming
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
W. Edwards Deming
You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.
W. Edwards Deming
Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
W. Edwards Deming
Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.
W. Edwards Deming