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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
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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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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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
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If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.
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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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