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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
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
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To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.
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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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The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
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You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.
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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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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
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It only takes a little innovation.
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There is no knowledge without theory.
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We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
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We must understand variation.
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You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
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Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
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The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
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In God we trust all others bring data.
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