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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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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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There is no substitute for knowledge.
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Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
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Without theory we can only copy.
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There must be consistency in direction.
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Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers
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Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
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People are entitled to joy in work.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. Edwards Deming
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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It only takes a little innovation.
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You can expect what you inspect.
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Lack of knowledge - that is the problem.
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We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.
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It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
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He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
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Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
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There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
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