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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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One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.
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You can expect what you inspect.
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Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
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When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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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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We want best efforts guided by theory.
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Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
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Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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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.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.
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Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
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It's not enough to do your best you must know what to do & then do your best.
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Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
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