W. Edwards Deming Quotes

» It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

» Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

» Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

» If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

» We are here to make another world.

» Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

» It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

» You should not ask questions without knowledge.

» Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

» All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

» You can not define being exactly on time.

» Quality is everyone's responsibility.

» Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

» Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

» The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

» Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

» Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

» If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

» When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

» Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

» The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

» The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

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