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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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One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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We must satisfy our customers.
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People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
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People need to know how their job contributes.
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Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.
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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.
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Without theory, there are no questions.
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Judging people does not help them.
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Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
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No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.
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To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay
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It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
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Any two people have different ideas of what is important.
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Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.
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