Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
W. Edwards Deming
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. Edwards Deming
Age: 93 †
Born: 1900
Born: October 18
Died: 1993
Died: December 20
Composer
Economist
Engineer
Industrial Engineer
Statistician
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
W. E. Deming
Going
Tube
Highway
Tubes
Highways
Defects
Super
Zero
Management
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
W. Edwards Deming
To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts
W. Edwards Deming
Experience by itself teaches nothing.
W. Edwards Deming
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. Edwards Deming
Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
W. Edwards Deming
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.
W. Edwards Deming
If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.
W. Edwards Deming
Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
W. Edwards Deming
When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, Figuring out how to think about the problem.
W. Edwards Deming
You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.
W. Edwards Deming
There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
W. Edwards Deming
Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
W. Edwards Deming
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
W. Edwards Deming
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
W. Edwards Deming
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
W. Edwards Deming