Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
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
Persons
Person
Good
Contest
Contests
Wins
System
Winning
More quotes by W. Edwards Deming
People are entitled to joy in work.
W. Edwards Deming
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
W. Edwards Deming
Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.
W. Edwards Deming
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. Edwards Deming
You can expect what you inspect.
W. Edwards Deming
Without theory, there are no questions.
W. Edwards Deming
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
There is no knowledge without theory.
W. Edwards Deming
Management does not know what a system is.
W. Edwards Deming
To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
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
A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.
W. Edwards Deming
Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
W. Edwards Deming
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?
W. Edwards Deming
We must satisfy our customers.
W. Edwards Deming
Nothing happens without personal transformation.
W. Edwards Deming
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
W. Edwards Deming
Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
W. Edwards Deming
Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
W. Edwards Deming
...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
W. Edwards Deming
