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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
William Edwards Deming
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You can expect what you inspect.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
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The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
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You do not install knowledge.
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
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There is no substitute for knowledge.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Managing by results only makes things worse.
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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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We must understand variation.
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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