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W. Edwards Deming
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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
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
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Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
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Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
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Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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The aim should be to work on the method of management.
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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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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
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You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.
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People need to know how their job contributes.
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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
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