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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 most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
W. Edwards Deming
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.
W. Edwards Deming
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. Edwards Deming
Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.
W. Edwards Deming
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.
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
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
W. Edwards Deming
Management is prediction.
W. Edwards Deming
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
W. Edwards Deming
We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.
W. Edwards Deming
In God we trust all others bring data.
W. Edwards Deming
The questions are more important than the answers.
W. Edwards Deming
Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
W. Edwards Deming
A goal without a method is nonsense.
W. Edwards Deming
We are here to make another world.
W. Edwards Deming
The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
W. Edwards Deming
The aim should be to work on the method of management.
W. Edwards Deming
You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.
W. Edwards Deming
You cannot inspect quality into the product it is already there.
W. Edwards Deming
We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
W. Edwards Deming
