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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 most important things cannot be measured.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
W. Edwards Deming
The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
W. Edwards Deming
A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.
W. Edwards Deming
Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.
W. Edwards Deming
Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.
W. Edwards Deming
People need to know how their job contributes.
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Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
W. Edwards Deming
We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
W. Edwards Deming
People need to know what their jobs are.
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I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
W. Edwards Deming
The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
W. Edwards Deming
When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, Figuring out how to think about the problem.
W. Edwards Deming
Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
W. Edwards Deming
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. Edwards Deming
Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
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