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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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Industrial Engineer
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Sioux City
Iowa
William Edwards Deming
W.E. Deming
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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.
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Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
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A system can not understand itself.
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The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
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Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.
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You can expect what you inspect.
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There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.
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You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
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One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.
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Survival is optional. No one has to change.
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If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
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