Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is no knowledge without theory.
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
Knowledge
Without
Management
Theory
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
You can not hear what you do not understand.
W. Edwards Deming
We must understand variation.
W. Edwards Deming
You can expect what you inspect.
W. Edwards Deming
When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
W. Edwards Deming
Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
W. Edwards Deming
Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
W. Edwards Deming
Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
W. Edwards Deming
Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.
W. Edwards Deming
The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.
W. Edwards Deming
Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
W. Edwards Deming
Management does not know what a system is.
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
Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
W. Edwards Deming
Nothing happens without personal transformation.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. Edwards Deming
Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
W. Edwards Deming
You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
W. Edwards Deming
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
W. Edwards Deming