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W. Edwards Deming
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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
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
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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.
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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
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Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
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Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
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Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.
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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
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I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.
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