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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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A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
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
Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
W. Edwards Deming
Managing by results only makes things worse.
W. Edwards Deming
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
W. Edwards Deming
It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough action is required.
W. Edwards Deming
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. Edwards Deming
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
W. Edwards Deming
Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.
W. Edwards Deming
Knowledge needs to be a verb.
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
We are here for an education.
W. Edwards Deming
Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
W. Edwards Deming
3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.
W. Edwards Deming
Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.
W. Edwards Deming
It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
W. Edwards Deming
The questions are more important than the answers.
W. Edwards Deming
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
W. Edwards Deming
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
W. Edwards Deming
