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" If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. "
W. Edwards Deming
Doing
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" Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. "
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" Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation. "
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" If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine. "
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" It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. "
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" The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. "
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Out
Workplace
Fun
" Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. "
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Compulsory
Neither
" The emphasis should be on why we do a job. "
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Job
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" I am forever learning and changing. "
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I Am
Forever
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" Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself. "
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Research
Organization
" Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. "
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Behavior
Action
Theory
" You can not define being exactly on time. "
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Being
Exactly
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" Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else. "
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Customer
Light
Him
" What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide. "
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Quality
Job
" A bad system will beat a good person every time. "
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Person
Bad
Good
" Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. "
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Objectives
Management
Including
" People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it. "
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People
Meeting
Destroy
" I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years. "
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Only
World
Over
" Quality is everyone's responsibility. "
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Quality
Responsibility
Everyone
" Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. "
W. Edwards Deming
Figures
You
Wrong
" People don't like to make mistakes. "
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Mistakes
People
Like
" We are here to make another world. "
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Make
Inspirational
Here
" Lack of knowledge... that is the problem. "
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Problem
Knowledge
Lack
" You should not ask questions without knowledge. "
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You
Knowledge
Ask
" The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place. "
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Place
People
First
" Any manager can do well in an expanding market. "
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Manager
Market
Well
" In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster. "
W. Edwards Deming
Quality
World
America
" My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything. "
W. Edwards Deming
Never
Hate
Me
" All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride. "
W. Edwards Deming
Pride
Chance
Work
" Export anything to a friendly country except American management. "
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American
Friendly
Management
" Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous! "
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Ridiculous
Hold
Everybody