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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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People need to know how their job contributes.
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Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.
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Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
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Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.
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People need to know what their jobs are.
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Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
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To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
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Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
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Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
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No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.
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Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.
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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.
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The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
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The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
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Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.
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Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.
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