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Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.
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
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Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
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People are entitled to joy in work.
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If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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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A system can not understand itself.
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We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
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