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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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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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Management's job is to optimize the whole system.
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People need to know how their job contributes.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.
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Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
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Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
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The transformation will come from leadership.
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The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
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It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth
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Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
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Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
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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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Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
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If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
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It only takes a little innovation.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.
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The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.
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