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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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It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough action is required.
W. Edwards Deming
To copy is to invite disaster.
W. Edwards Deming
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
W. Edwards Deming
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming
3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
W. Edwards Deming
We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
W. Edwards Deming
People need to know how their job contributes.
W. Edwards Deming
Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
W. Edwards Deming
Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.
W. Edwards Deming
A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.
W. Edwards Deming
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. Edwards Deming
Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
W. Edwards Deming
Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
W. Edwards Deming
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
W. Edwards Deming
Survival is optional. No one has to change.
W. Edwards Deming
Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.
W. Edwards Deming
Without theory, there are no questions.
W. Edwards Deming
A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
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