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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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We want best efforts guided by theory.
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A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
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Meeting specifications is not enough.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.
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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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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
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...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
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Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.
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All models are wrong some models are useful.
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A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.
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You do not install quality you begin to work at it.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers
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Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.
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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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Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.
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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
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