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When we cooperate, everybody wins.
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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New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.
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You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.
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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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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
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A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
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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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You can expect what you inspect.
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Management is prediction.
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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
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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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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
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Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.
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The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.
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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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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