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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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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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You do not install knowledge.
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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
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Learning is not compulsory it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
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Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.
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We are here to make another world.
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Judging people does not help them.
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The transformation will come from leadership.
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You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
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We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
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We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
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The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
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It's management's job to know.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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The questions are more important than the answers.
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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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.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
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It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth
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