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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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Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.
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In God we trust all others bring data.
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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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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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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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A leader's job is to help his people.
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A system can not understand itself.
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Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
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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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