Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Managing by results only makes things worse.
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
Managing
Management
Worse
Results
Makes
Things
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
We are here for an education.
W. Edwards Deming
The aim should be to work on the method of management.
W. Edwards Deming
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.
W. Edwards Deming
It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
W. Edwards Deming
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
W. Edwards Deming
The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
It only takes a little innovation.
W. Edwards Deming
A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.
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
The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
W. Edwards Deming
A system can not understand itself.
W. Edwards Deming
A goal without a method is nonsense.
W. Edwards Deming
Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.
W. Edwards Deming
It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth
W. Edwards Deming
The customer is the most important part of the production line.
W. Edwards Deming
Nothing happens without personal transformation.
W. Edwards Deming
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. Edwards Deming