Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Without theory we can only copy.
W. Edwards Deming
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
Composer
Economist
Engineer
Industrial Engineer
Statistician
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
Management
Theory
Without
Copy
Copies
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
W. Edwards Deming
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
W. Edwards Deming
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality starts in the boardroom.
W. Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
W. Edwards Deming
A leader's job is to help his people.
W. Edwards Deming
The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
W. Edwards Deming
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. Edwards Deming
Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.
W. Edwards Deming
The most valuable currency of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
W. Edwards Deming
If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
W. Edwards Deming
A leader is a coach, not a judge.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
