Quotes By W. Edwards Deming
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system (responsibility of management) 6% special
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Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
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New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.
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numerical goals set for other people, without a road map to reach the goal, have effects opposite to the effects sought.
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In God we trust, all others must bring data.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them.
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To copy is to invite disaster.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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