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W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
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Economist
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Industrial Engineer
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Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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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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Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
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People need to know what their jobs are.
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The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
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We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
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We want best efforts guided by theory.
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We must understand variation.
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A system can not understand itself.
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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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You can not hear what you do not understand.
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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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Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
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You can expect what you inspect.
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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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What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
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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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Managing by results only makes things worse.
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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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